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Oct 04, 2024
Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Russia apparently attacked by Ukraine on August 6th, 2024
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So it seems that this oddly short blurb is a bit of politicized gamesmanship between what is going on at the Russian Kursk power plant, reportedly attacked by Ukraine’s military on August 6th, has taken a threatening swing as Russia’s continued attacks goes on in Ukraine for 2+ years of serious damage to their Russian occupied and operated Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southeastern Ukraine.
It seems to be getting more and more difficult to know and understand how and why this continues to happen, but there is no question it is the beginning of a new kind of nuclear war using nuclear power plants rather than nuclear bomb — at least for now . . . ~llaw
Kremlin accuses Ukraine of ‘playing with fire’ after reported attack near Kursk nuclear plant
By Reuters
October 4, 20242:38 AM PDT Updated 12 hours ago
MOSCOW, Oct 4 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Friday accused Ukrainian authorities of playing with fire, a day after Russian forces said they had intercepted a Ukrainian drone near the Kursk nuclear plant and some news outlets reported a fire had broken out several miles away.
“Kyiv is continuing to play with fire, and we will naturally bring this to the attention of the IAEA’s representatives,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, referring to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear watchdog.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhiy Tykhyi on Thursday denied that Ukraine had fired weapons at or near the plant.
Ukrainian forces entered the Kursk region in a surprise cross-border incursion on Aug. 6 and remain there even as the Russian military tries to eject them.
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