I can’t link the relevant Telegram and Twitter posts atm, but reports are about 60 Ukrainian commandos landed just east of the power plant this morning. RAF started shelling the area and engaged them with planes and helicopters. The Russians also claim they sunk 2 more landing ships due west of the plant. Situation isn’t yet fully resolved from what I can tell.

First, just wtf are these lunatics doing. Second, the inspectors arrived in the region yesterday iirc and were supposed to inspect the plant today or in the coming days. The Russians pulled out their forces from neighboring Enerhodar for this visit. Essentially the Ukrainians used the visit as shield for an amphibious assault on a nuclear power plant. That’s the least nefarious interpretation here. What in the world would they have done had they seized the plant. Take the inspectors hostage? Do a PR piece for the world showing the planet they themselves shelled and attacked under their controlled to the world, using the inspectors to give the story credit? Just wtf.

Edit: Seems like the UAF are currently detaining the column of inspectors at a checkpoint about 20km from the frontline.

  • @OrnluWolfjarl
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    282 years ago

    It was very clear from the beginning that Ukraine was trying to create an incident and then blame Russia.

    • @KommandoGZDOP
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      222 years ago

      True, still nuts to me they’d go this far for another PR stunt. One it’s a fucking nuclear plant; two it’s an amphibious assault without aircover on a heavily guarded and monitored area, in part due to their previous shelling; three these PR stunts don’t change the situation on the ground.

      Like at some point these people have to realize this war isn’t being won on Twitter or CNN, but on the ground.

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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        it’s a fucking nuclear plant

        It’s a nuclear plant in their own country, surrounded by their own people.

        Fucking nazis. This is how much their nationalist rhetorics is worth.

        • @Mzuark
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          72 years ago

          Everything going on in the Ukraine controlled areas makes a lot more sense when you step back and realize that the country is basically run by Nazi death cults.

      • @Shrike502
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        an amphibious assault without aircover on a heavily guarded and monitored area

        I am curious how they managed to convince the troops to go along with that plan. Surely they’ve seen the helis? Or perhaps heard about what happened with the previous tank assault?

        • @ZarathustrasApe420
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          152 years ago

          It’s not hard to convince people to do stupid things when they are brainwashed by the deathcult that is neo-Nazism.

          • @Shrike502
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            112 years ago

            I guess you’re right. Just thought even Nazis would have a sense of self-preservation. And I’m somewhat sure at least some of those soldiers were freshly conscripted youngins.

            • @ZarathustrasApe420
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              That’s how deep this problem runs in Ukrainian culture. Remember that this whole “invasion” is coming after an 8 year civil war in which Ukraine wanted to ethnically cleanse its Eastern region of the Russian minority.

              • @Shrike502
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                It’s one thing to murder civillains from the safety of an artillery position, it’s completely different matter to stage an assault on a well-defended facility. Nazis, contrary to what libs think, are not known for their bravery.

                • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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                  At some point hate and brainwash do overwrite survival instinct though. Plenty examples from history.

            • @Mzuark
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              Their only hope of not being completely wiped out is to get other countries involved in the war, so of course they’re doing everything in their power to make this conflict global.

      • @OrnluWolfjarl
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        I think the plan was to sabotage the power plant and cause a leak. Also possibly, they were trying to cause the inspection to be postponed/cancelled.

        I don’t know how true this is and I don’t have any official source but: Russians are saying that they had intel that Boris Johnson was involved in the planning and he was going to use a leak as an excuse to stay in power citing a clause about the world being in danger. That would explain all the visits from Johnson to Ukraine and the rumors about Ukrainians training in the UK. But again, as far as I know, this is not confirmed or substantiated in any way.

        Edit: from intel slava:

        🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Kremlin was aware of the plans of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to take advantage of the arrival of the IAEA mission and carry out an amphibious landing in order to try to seize the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant and make statements for days that it was Russian special forces. Under ideal conditions for the work of the DRG, they calculated the task of taking the mission itself hostage and keeping the nuclear power plant under mines, making demands for the complete withdrawal of Russian troops to the territory of Crimea.

        Boris Johnson brought the plan of operation and some of the instructors with him as a demobilization chord of his premiership, but if the GUR was successful, he would have refused to transfer power, referring to an international emergency threatening a catastrophe on a planetary scale. At the moment, 47 DRG fighters have been destroyed, three have been taken prisoner (!), Two are in serious condition between life and death. A group of 12 people is blocked on three sides and cut off from the water and boats, by 15:00 CTO will be over. Zelensky’s statement on this situation is expected in the late afternoon, the head of the IAEA Mission has already been notified of the situation, as well as UN Secretary General Guterres. The operation was coordinated by MI6 officers from their headquarters in the suburbs of Kyiv. All 64 DRGs have recently completed training in the UK and traveled from Warsaw to Odessa on 29 August.

      • ButtigiegMineralMap
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        102 years ago

        What I hate most about the PR front is the fact that they don’t need to do anything for PR. Half the world is full of libs that thing Zelenskyy is the second coming.

    • @Mzuark
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      They were having more success with blaming their purges on Russia, all these attacks against a nuclear power plant have made their goal way too obvious to even the most naive viewer.

  • @Shrike502
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    152 years ago

    So Grossi has suspiciously quickly left. Was he actually counting on the assault succeeding?

  • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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    Even official UN figures have acknowledged this, but I’ll bet that Western MSM won’t mention it at all (or they’ll try and blame it on the Russians or something)

  • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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    ASBMil and IntelSlava have detailed updates and even footage of these events, if you want to check them out

  • @Mzuark
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    Everyone’s eyes are the wrong fucking cowboys with this nuclear plant drama. Libs are afraid of Russia nuking themselves for no particular reason, but no one seems to care about the extremely suspect behavior of Ukrainian forces.