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Re:Russian forces threaten to blow up Europe’s largest nucle... by muchtest on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:02PM (#32387226)
“There will either be Russian land, or a scorched desert,” Major General Valery Vasiliev is reported to have told his troops.

Energoatom claims that Ukrainian intelligence services are aware of the fact that Russian forces had rigged the site of the nuclear power plant with explosives.

It sounds terrible....but it's all second hand sources, specifically the Ukrainian Intelligence. The whole story of the nuclear power plant doesn't pass the sniff test and the Guardian article is a bit more critical of it. Why would Russia bomb their own forces that they hold? Why would Russia blow up a nuclear plant in territory it wants to own, next to the Southern heartland of their country.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/08/how-dangerous-...

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Re:Russian forces threaten to blow up Europe’s largest nucle... by superchroma on Monday August 08, 2022 @12:09PM (#32387320)
One possible explanation is that it's not a centrally issued order, and it comes from the same ignorance that drove them to dig trenches in the deadly earth in Chernobyl.
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