“We’re getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident,” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said following multiple attacks against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said attacks against Europe’s largest nuclear power plant have put the world “dangerously close to a nuclear accident”.

Without attributing blame, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said his agency has been able to confirm three attacks against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant since 7 April.

“These reckless attacks must cease immediately,” he told the Security Council on Monday. “Though, fortunately, they have not led to a radiological incident this time, they significantly increase the risk … where nuclear safety is already compromised.”

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      3 months ago

      And I should at that point. I’m strongly opposed to US troops in Ukraine to fight the war.

      That said, attacking the power plant is a red line for me. That is an attack on the world.

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        3 months ago

        bring NATO into the war

        [it?] should at that point

        That said, attacking the power plant is a red line for me. That is an attack on the world.

        Are you suggesting that NATO joins Russia in fighting Ukraine due to Ukraine doing “an attack on the world”? I don’t see this happening…
        Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was seized and is controlled by Russia for more than 2 years now. So the attacks are coming from Ukrainian side. You do understand that, do you?

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                3 months ago

                The article does not say otherwise.
                The article says

                The remote-controlled nature of the drones that have attacked the plant means that it is not possible to determine who launched them

                So you would rather believe a conspiracy theory (or what else would you call that?) that Russia is repeatedly (!) attacking itself, it’s own territory that it controls for more than 2 years, than that Ukraine is attacking the territory of its enemy?

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            3 months ago

            There is a possibility that this a false flag, sure!
            But to claim that something is a false flag you need to back it up with something better than “they did that in the past so this surely must be it”, don’t you think?
            When countries A and B are at war, and there’s an attack happening on the territory of country B, is your first thought “this must be a false flag” or “this must be an attack by country A”?

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          3 months ago

          I think you read that the wrong way 'round. It makes sense to me, in the context of being against the stupid Russians.

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              3 months ago

              Because Russia deliberately attack the power plant, that is an attack on the world. It seems to me that you read it as if Ukraine did this attack?

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                3 months ago

                I did not read that “Ukraine did this attack”, as a matter of fact article does not say who attacked it, because they “lack evidence”.
                It’s just the only way I see how one can believe that the attack was done by Russia, is a conspiracy theory that Russia attacks its own territory.
                On the other one, Ukraine attacking it is perfectly logical because they are attacking a territory of their enemy that they do not control.

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                  3 months ago

                  It’s simple. Ukraine is fighting to get their home land back. They are smart and will not destroy the power plant. This is undeniable fact.

                  On the other hand, Russia is driven by a power hungry maniac, and they have shelled the plant before. They also had their troops dig trenches in the irradiated soil - poor sods will all die from cancer, if not from acute lead poisoning. This is also undeniable fact.

                  If we agree on this, let’s have a discussion. If not, I will consider you an unusually eloquent but still Russian troll and block you for wasting my time.

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                  3 months ago

                  Do you understand that Ukraine does not see the south of its own country as “enemy territory”?