1000 or more Ukrainians blocking Russian troops at the entrance to Enerhodar nuclear power plant

[maxparrish]

Just Incredible. There looks to be over a thousand civilians who turned out to block a narrow road to a nuclear power plant. They are blocking the entrance of the plant to prevent Russan troops from gaining control.

So what do the Russian troops do now, run them over? Order an artillery barrage? Such courage these people have.

 

[phoenix2020]

That's awesome. Thanks for sharing.

 

[MaryP]

Just Incredible. There looks to be over a thousand civilians who turned out to block a narrow road to a nuclear power plant. They are blocking the entrance of the plant to prevent Russan troops from gaining control.

So what do the Russian troops do now, run them over? Order an artillery barrage? Such courage these people have.

I don't want to see what happens next.

 

[lemmiwinx]

Putin is done. In the western world I mean, Chairman Xi loves him.

 

[EnigmaO01]

Just Incredible. There looks to be over a thousand civilians who turned out to block a narrow road to a nuclear power plant. They are blocking the entrance of the plant to prevent Russan troops from gaining control.

So what do the Russian troops do now, run them over? Order an artillery barrage? Such courage these people have.

Brings tears to my eyes. Such courage.

 

[maxparrish]

I don't want to see what happens next.

By in large Russian troops have been very decent around civilians, most likely for two reasons a) they don't even know why they are there and b) they are fellow Slavs and Russians...they seem very reluctant at times to do what they are doing.

Alas, long range artillery and ballistic missiles are launched far away, using grid coordinates. Very impersonal. If a group officer calls it in to do what his troops wont do, well you can imagine..

 

[oneworld2]

By in large Russian troops have been very decent around civilians, most likely for two reasons a) they don't even know why they are there and b) they are fellow Slavs and Russians...they seem very reluctant at times to do what they are doing.

Alas, long range artillery and ballistic missiles are launched far away, using grid coordinates. Very impersonal. If a group officer calls it in to do what his troops wont do, well you can imagine..

That second phase was always the going to be by far the worst .

I haven't liked the goading of the Russian troops performance by so many people here and outside, They are sent to do the will of others and I have seen a few clips where they have, as you say, been " pretty decent" around the Ukrainian civilians they have been in close proximity to.

The sniggering, maybe not the right word exactly, about how they have been suffering losses forgets that they themselves didn't start any war , might not agree with the war but might also end up losing their lives in it.

 

[Rogue Valley]

Just Incredible. There looks to be over a thousand civilians who turned out to block a narrow road to a nuclear power plant. They are blocking the entrance of the plant to prevent Russan troops from gaining control.

Enerhodar (52,000) is a town near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Zaporizhzhia is the site of the largest nuclear power facility in Europe. There is also a magnificent hydroelectric dam there.

Zaporizhzhia was at one time the capital of the Zaporizhzhia Sich Cossack empire. On an island in the Dnieper River, Cossacks still give shows exhibiting their horsemanship.

They are really good. I can ride fairly well, but not like that. The people of Zaporizhzhia are brave and stubborn. You can easily see this in the video above.

 

[Luce]

I gotta say, the Ukrainians have displayed gigantic balls throughout this entire thing.

 

[Gateman_Wen]

Just Incredible. There looks to be over a thousand civilians who turned out to block a narrow road to a nuclear power plant. They are blocking the entrance of the plant to prevent Russan troops from gaining control.

So what do the Russian troops do now, run them over? Order an artillery barrage? Such courage these people have.

Amazing to see them putting down their lives to protect their country.


Instead of attacking it like tRump supporters.

 

[Rogue Valley]

I gotta say, the Ukrainians have displayed gigantic balls throughout this entire thing.

The video reminds me of the military funerals. Specifically the ones in rural areas. When a soldier was KIA in eastern Ukraine, s/he was placed in a wooden coffin which was placed in a van for the journey home. I've never before seen anything like this. People would line up on both sides of the road, miles distant from the local church/cemetery. Stretching for miles along a one lane rural road! And they would all be kneeling. And it didn't matter if they were kneeling in sunshine, or puddles, or snow drifts. Then the funeral procession would arrive with the van in front. Men and boys would all remove their hats and somberly lower their heads. Women and girls would do the sign of the cross and be crying. As the four vehicle funeral procession passed, the people would fall in behind, walking. For miles they walked until they reached the cemetery. Priests would be there to do their thing. The national anthem of Ukraine would be sung by all as the coffin was lowered into the ground.

One of the most profound things I have ever witnessed in my entire life.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I gotta say, the Ukrainians have displayed gigantic balls throughout this entire thing.

 

[watsup]

Just Incredible. There looks to be over a thousand civilians who turned out to block a narrow road to a nuclear power plant. They are blocking the entrance of the plant to prevent Russan troops from gaining control.

So what do the Russian troops do now, run them over? Order an artillery barrage? Such courage these people have.

Such brave people. Before this is over, Putin is going to commit an atrocity so brutal that total shock on the part of the world will be the reaction. He has gone mad.

 

[maxparrish]

Putin is done. In the western world I mean, Chairman Xi loves him.

I hope the world is shocked without a great atrocity being needed. But even as I write, after a week of the war I'm getting the sense that people are losing interest. Biden's SOTU was a real disappointment, I'd hoped he make 80 percent of his speech about a world crisis in Ukraine, and Churchillian moment - instead it sounded like same old stuff we hear every year...in some ways very petty and self absorbed compared to what is occurring there.

 

[maxparrish]

Enerhodar (52,000) is a town near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Zaporizhzhia is the site of the largest nuclear power facility in Europe. There is also a magnificent hydroelectric dam there.

Zaporizhzhia was at one time the capital of the Zaporizhzhia Sich Cossack empire. On an island in the Dnieper River, Cossacks still give shows exhibiting their horsemanship.

They are really good. I can ride fairly well, but not like that. The people of Zaporizhzhia are brave and stubborn. You can easily see this in the video above.

Troubling news from Zaporizhia:

 

[Gladiator]

"Russia-Ukraine war latest news: foreign minister urges ceasefire after shelling starts fire at nuclear power plant – live
Exact location of fire at Zaporizhzhya power plant unclear as Dmytro Kuleba urges Russian forces to allow in firefighters; Ukrainian president tells Russian leader direct talks are ‘only way to stop this war’"

"Fire breaks out at Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant
A fire has broken out in Europe’s largest nuclear power plant located in Zaporizhzhya, according to an announcement from plant employees and the mayor of the nearby town of Enerhodar.
“As a result of continuous enemy shelling of buildings and units of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is on fire,” Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov said on his Telegram channel just after 1.30am local time, citing what he called a threat to world security.
Orlov recorded a short video message which has now been shared my multiple local Ukrainian media outlets, urging Russian troops to immediately stop shelling the plant."

More than 500 international students trapped in Ukrainian town – as it happened

Hundreds of students are stranded in Sumy in the north-east after days of shelling

www.theguardian.com

What Happens During a Nuclear Meltdown?

Nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi station in Japan are critically endangered but have not reached full meltdown status. Our nuclear primer explains what that means and how the situation compares with past nuclear accidents

www.scientificamerican.com

If electric pumps stop pumping cooling water to the reactor, the core can melt down.





//

 

[jpn]

That second phase was always the going to be by far the worst .
I haven't liked the goading of the Russian troops performance by so many people here and outside, They are sent to do the will of others and I have seen a few clips where they have, as you say, been " pretty decent" around the Ukrainian civilians they have been in close proximity to.
The sniggering, maybe not the right word exactly, about how they have been suffering losses forgets that they themselves didn't start any war , might not agree with the war but might also end up losing their lives in it.

Yeah, that's kind of the problem with autocracies, isn't it? The military never knows where the kleptocratic psycho in power is going to send them.

Hell, even nutty George W Bush's idiotic invasion of Iraq had congressional approval.

 

[jpn]

"Fire breaks out at Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant

If anything would activate NATO, it would be this.

It would be self-defense of the West to snuff out a Russian military that was recklessly destroying nuclear power plants. It's unbelievably, stupidly provocative.

 

[watsup]

"Russia-Ukraine war latest news: foreign minister urges ceasefire after shelling starts fire at nuclear power plant – live
Exact location of fire at Zaporizhzhya power plant unclear as Dmytro Kuleba urges Russian forces to allow in firefighters; Ukrainian president tells Russian leader direct talks are ‘only way to stop this war’"

"Fire breaks out at Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant
A fire has broken out in Europe’s largest nuclear power plant located in Zaporizhzhya, according to an announcement from plant employees and the mayor of the nearby town of Enerhodar.
“As a result of continuous enemy shelling of buildings and units of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is on fire,” Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov said on his Telegram channel just after 1.30am local time, citing what he called a threat to world security.
Orlov recorded a short video message which has now been shared my multiple local Ukrainian media outlets, urging Russian troops to immediately stop shelling the plant."

More than 500 international students trapped in Ukrainian town – as it happened

Hundreds of students are stranded in Sumy in the north-east after days of shelling

www.theguardian.com

What Happens During a Nuclear Meltdown?

Nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi station in Japan are critically endangered but have not reached full meltdown status. Our nuclear primer explains what that means and how the situation compares with past nuclear accidents

www.scientificamerican.com

If electric pumps stop pumping cooling water to the reactor, the core can melt down.





//

The madman Putin knows no depth to his evil.

 

[maxparrish]

"Russia-Ukraine war latest news: foreign minister urges ceasefire after shelling starts fire at nuclear power plant – live
Exact location of fire at Zaporizhzhya power plant unclear as Dmytro Kuleba urges Russian forces to allow in firefighters; Ukrainian president tells Russian leader direct talks are ‘only way to stop this war’"

"Fire breaks out at Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant
A fire has broken out in Europe’s largest nuclear power plant located in Zaporizhzhya, according to an announcement from plant employees and the mayor of the nearby town of Enerhodar.
“As a result of continuous enemy shelling of buildings and units of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is on fire,” Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov said on his Telegram channel just after 1.30am local time, citing what he called a threat to world security.
Orlov recorded a short video message which has now been shared my multiple local Ukrainian media outlets, urging Russian troops to immediately stop shelling the plant."

More than 500 international students trapped in Ukrainian town – as it happened

Hundreds of students are stranded in Sumy in the north-east after days of shelling

www.theguardian.com

What Happens During a Nuclear Meltdown?

Nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi station in Japan are critically endangered but have not reached full meltdown status. Our nuclear primer explains what that means and how the situation compares with past nuclear accidents

www.scientificamerican.com

If electric pumps stop pumping cooling water to the reactor, the core can melt down.

What brainless local commander would allow his troops to fire in the direction of a nuclear power plant. My God, that is totally insane.

 

[Hamish Howl]

What brainless local commander would allow his troops to fire in the direction of a nuclear power plant. My God, that is totally insane.

This is Keystone Kops level bullshit.

 

[Gladiator]

If all Ukranians left Ukrania, Russia wins.

The Russian army goes home if they win, regardless of any radiation leak in Ukraine.


Russia hates any Western sympathizers being anywhere near Russia. Just as the US was sensitive about Russian missles in Cuba.

"In the case of Ukraine, NATO membership for that country implied the expulsion of Russia from the naval base of Sevastopol in Crimea (a city of immense importance to Russia, both strategic and emotional), and the creation of a hard international frontier between Russia and the Russian and Russian-speaking minorities in Ukraine, making up more than a third of the Ukrainian population.

The Russian establishment fears in addition that NATO would act as a cover for a program of state-backed Ukrainian ethnic nationalism intended to destroy Russian Culture...."

Russia Has Been Warning About Ukraine for Decades. The West Should Have Listened

"The threat to NATO’s safety and prestige are largely of its own making with its empty commitments to countries that it has neither the will nor the ability to defend."

time.com

//

 

[watsup]

If all Ukranians left Ukrania, Russia wins.

The Russian army goes home if they win, regardless of any radiation leak in Ukraine.


Russia hates any Western sympathizers being anywhere near Russia. Just as the US was sensitive about Russian missles in Cuba.

"In the case of Ukraine, NATO membership for that country implied the expulsion of Russia from the naval base of Sevastopol in Crimea (a city of immense importance to Russia, both strategic and emotional), and the creation of a hard international frontier between Russia and the Russian and Russian-speaking minorities in Ukraine, making up more than a third of the Ukrainian population.

The Russian establishment fears in addition that NATO would act as a cover for a program of state-backed Ukrainian ethnic nationalism intended to destroy Russian Culture...."

Russia Has Been Warning About Ukraine for Decades. The West Should Have Listened

"The threat to NATO’s safety and prestige are largely of its own making with its empty commitments to countries that it has neither the will nor the ability to defend."

time.com

//

You’ve been reading too much Russian propaganda.

 

[maxparrish]

If all Ukranians left Ukrania, Russia wins.

The Russian army goes home if they win, regardless of any radiation leak in Ukraine.


Russia hates any Western sympathizers being anywhere near Russia. Just as the US was sensitive about Russian missles in Cuba.

"In the case of Ukraine, NATO membership for that country implied the expulsion of Russia from the naval base of Sevastopol in Crimea (a city of immense importance to Russia, both strategic and emotional), and the creation of a hard international frontier between Russia and the Russian and Russian-speaking minorities in Ukraine, making up more than a third of the Ukrainian population.

The Russian establishment fears in addition that NATO would act as a cover for a program of state-backed Ukrainian ethnic nationalism intended to destroy Russian Culture...."

Russia Has Been Warning About Ukraine for Decades. The West Should Have Listened

"The threat to NATO’s safety and prestige are largely of its own making with its empty commitments to countries that it has neither the will nor the ability to defend."

time.com

//

So the presence of a western sympathizer is equal to the presence of an IRBM with a nuclear warhead?

Now that daffy equivalency is a first.

 

[joluoto]

Putin is done. In the western world I mean, Chairman Xi loves him.

Chairman Xi tolerates him, but that's all. Really no love there.