The agency’s chief, Kyrylo Budanov, has alleged Moscow has approved a plan to blow up the station and has mined four out of six power units, as well as a cooling pond. Last week Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Russia was plotting a “terrorist attack”.

Fuck putler, this can trigger a world war

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there a way they could blow it up without making a radioactive cloud? "Power units" could refer the the radioactive bits or just turbines and/or alternators.

[–] TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They didn't strictly mined the power units, but also the cooling pool, so... all of those are set up to cause a meltdown. The article point that out.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if they want to they definitely could, but starting WWIII over this shit? That's insane. (Not to mention the nuclear disaster)

[–] TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think we have clearly established in the past year that any sense of rationality from the Russian government is already out of the window.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I definitely have no delusions of their competence at this point. I still hold tenuously to the idea they want to live.