Footage of a Russian drone strike on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that took place last night
Footage of a Russian drone strike on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that took place last night
Attached: 1 video Footage of a Russian drone strike on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that took place last night. #Ukraine️ #UkraineRussiaWar #Russia #ChNPP #Chernobyl
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Why the hell would Russia even do that?
What's the actual reasoning behind that? Doesn't this fuck them over too?
Scorched Earth? Hoping that the drone wouldn't be noticed and they could say that Chernobyl is too dangerous to be left to Ukraine? Boredom? Pure psychopathy? To cover up a nuclear strike? Someone meant to order Chipotle and signals got crossed? Roll a d6 and see where it lands.
You missed the obvious one: Sending a message that they are willing to escalate.
The strike hit the "sarcophage" that was built to contain the ruins of the reactor that blew up in 1986.
The message is "we will risk large scale nuclear contamination". Remember how a few months back they used an ICBM w.o. a nuclear warhead for some missile strike, they could have done with a regular missile?
Combine the two messages: "We have the missiles"+"we will risk large scale nuclear contamination" -> "We are serious about the nuke business. Don't get in our way."
nuclear was claimed as a nato red line when this war first started. They are testing nato to see if it is really a redline.
Literally they're trying to conduct nuclear warfare without using a nuke.
To cover up a nuclear strike?
That won't work, because it's possible to very precisely determine the origin of radioactive fallout by analysing the types and quantities of different isotopes in it. Also (above ground/water) nuclear weapon detonations do have very distinct optical signatures that can be detected by very simple instruments mounted on satellites, while underground nuclear detonations do have distinct seismic signatures that can be detected and located with the same equipment used to monitor earthquakes. For underwater detonations, I'm sure there are acoustic signatures that will do the same.
The kremlin playbook: test how much they can get away with. Test what's happening when they myrder someone in the EU, cutting cables, ...
I had similar questions. How would they benefit from this, and why would they do it a day after the US verbally agreed to most of their demands? Is this a false-flag operation?
That's the weird part.
I wouldn't imagine Ukraine would ever do something so reckless.
But Russia has nothing to gain, peace talks are about to start with heavily favoring Russia
So all I can assume is it could be a third party that doesnt want the peace talk to happen at all, and did this to further destabalize the situation?
I dunno it's just super fucking weird overall. Why chernybol of all things, no one, not even putin, would want that thing to start popping off... right?
That attack for all intents and purposes should be viewed by the world as no different than a failed nuclear launch, really.
And everyone is too pussy to do anything about it.
That's a really interesting point I hadn't considered. It could certainly be some extremist third-party, or even some unknown faction of one of the sides, trying to stir things up. Hmm, the British MI6 gets up to some pretty crazy antics, and they would be fairly far away from the fallout?
I mean, every strike on a non-military target is propaganda for Ukraine, and a wasted munition. They do it anyway, because they figure hurt Ukrainians = victory. And maybe for their own career advancement it is.
Can also not discount complete incompetence.