Opinion: Putin appears to be covertly threatening a nuclear catastrophe that could make parts of Ukraine uninhabitable, contaminate eastern Europe and spread radioactivity throughout the European continent and beyond.
“No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history.”Over three decades after the disaster of Chernobyl, the nuclear plant that exploded and spread radioactive materials over 200,000 square kilometres of southeast Europe, parts of Belarus and Ukraine are still contaminated.than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
The plant was inactive and could not deprive Ukraine of electrical supply. So what was the strategy behind a manoeuvre that was not only perilous, but appeared pointless? The answer became clearer when Russian forces seized theAmid a firefight after Russian forces moved in, aobtained by NPR shows chilling scenes of what appear to be reckless attacks near reactor buildings housing dangerous nuclear fuel.
Most harrowingly, they damaged two of the reactor buildings, and a spent fuel pad used to store nuclear waste. In the assault on the plant, two high-voltage lines that are essential to its safe operations were struck.
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