We broke it right down to rubble when it was working just fine; now we’ve fixed a trivial part of it!
This is the thanks he gets. /s
Francis has denounced the war in Ukraine but has tried to keep a door open to dialogue with Moscow, refraining from condemning Russia, President Vladimir Putin or Kirill by name. His balanced approach has angered Kyiv, which this week condemned his comments lamenting that innocents on both sides were paying the price of war.
Francis made those comments Wednesday as he marked six months of war and referred to the weekend car bomb slaying in Moscow of Darya Dugina, a nationalist Russian TV commentator and daughter of the right-wing Russian political theorist, Alexander Dugin, who ardently supports the war.
Francis listed the “poor girl” killed by a car bomb in Moscow, as well as orphans in Ukraine and Russia, among the “innocents” who have been victimized by the “insanity of war.”
Meanwhile:
So the Russians ran an experiment in 1986 to see what would happen and… what… they’ve learned from the experience? /s
I presume this is about getting that power into the Russian grid instead, since this is really about resource theft in the first place.
I believe that is the case; resource theft and wanting to force occupied parts of ukraine to be beholden to russia for energy. for some reason, the russians feel they have to do this by fabricating a crisis and risking a nuclear disaster.
my understanding is that the plant was still providing 20% of ukraine’s energy needs before this.
They already say that Ukraine is shelling the plant, so if there is a disaster they will say that it shows why Russia had to invade Ukraine and overthrow the fascist terrorist Kiev regime.
Russians burning millions
On the 3rd story, maybe they’re planning to mint NFTs of all that gas, retaining the full value of the destroyed asset in convenient blockchain form?
From the Guardian liveblog:
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant reconnected to Ukraine’s grid, says operator
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been reconnected to the grid, according to the country’s state nuclear company.
Energoatom said one reactor at the plant has been reconnected to the grid and that it was building up capacity, Reuters reports.
In a statement, the company said:
Today… at 14:04, one of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant’s power units that shut down yesterday was connected to the power grid.
Reports that Ukraine has begun a counter-offensive on the Kherson front:
