Fighting in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia caused power plant workers to prepare for the possibility of a nuclear disaster.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.N. head Antonio Guterres agreed Thursday on the terms of a trip by the International Atomic Energy Agency to the embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the presidential website said.
However, the plant has been under Russian control since early in the war, and it's not certain the Kremlin will accede to the visit. A Russian Foreign Ministry official rejected the notion of withdrawing troops, saying it would leave the plant “vulnerable.”
The warring sides have been accusing each other of risking a nuclear calamity by shelling in the vicinity of the plant and, on Thursday, of plotting to attack the site and then blame the other party. Russian Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov said his country may cease operations of the plant “if the situation with Ukrainian shelling continues to develop negatively.''
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Soooo not winning today then? 😭
Who gave Ukrainians Himars rockets to target the nuclear power plant???
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@Bart Koscinski
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Was the music really needed?
usually attached to propaganda.
Wow
If we just play re-runs of Obama’s speeches, this conflict will surely end.
Are there any Ukraine soldiers who don’t have swastika tattoos?
Nop.
@Lexi if you did not strip him personally and inspect all of his body parts you can’t be sure. We live in time when man can be a woman and woman man so anything is possible.
😂😂😂😂😂😂fake news from a fake war
Russia: it will be a disaster, let me start shutting it down to be safe
West: stop threatening, stop using it as storage, and stop shelling yourself
Russia: …
‘ Ukraine 🇺🇦 ‘ White Flag ‘ GIVE IT UP ‘ ! ❤️ ! ” Responsibility Matters for ALL Lives ” !
The catastrophe is Volodymyr Zelensky
I guess we’re heading for another Chernobyl incident.
Actually ww3
Is that a Nato flag in the back ground!?
UN
Move the fleet away from the Death Star!
What s the big deal u said nuke power was safe n clean…why all the fuss?
What is safe by your standards then? Since you seem to be measuring it by it’s capacity to withstand artillery fire.
It’s safe when regulated and monitored.. fighting around it is kinda way out of that water and kinda really stupid. Like no one over there has any common sense to stay away from such a destructive plant? Did they not learn this from chernobyls incident that playing around with nuclear material is a disaster ?
Does radiation twice the size of Hiroshima mean anything probably not to Russia they’re already done
I’ve threatened No One! …I’ve pointed out and questioned …and that is all !!!
PS: Hope you’re nowhere near ground zero potential Chernobyl act 2 Meathead !!! Good Luck! 🙂
I’ve threatened No One: Get lost Meathead !!!
Go, evacuate. Land is baggage, leave. Land is stage trap, love is not. Loved ones can be free,relocate elsewhere and live happily. help all Ukrainians evacuate to other warless countries. This is a fundamental war right. Evacuate like others
You can forget all, Evacuate and change citizenship, relocate. Your lives can be of other uses.Nobody can stop anybody’s evacuation, then there is a way and all innocent people must leave for other warless countries.UN or someone else.
What is your personal plan to survive WW IiI. You do realize Russia can hit every square inch of the USA ?
Give the Ukrainian comic a few more billion.