Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 **Media Thread** NO DISCUSSION

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More than 500 international students trapped in Ukrainian town battered by shelling
Emmanuel Akinwotu, Julian Borger and Lisa O’Carroll report:

More than 500 international students are trapped in Sumy, a town 40km from Ukraine’s northeast border that has been battered by days of shelling by Russian forces.

Most of the students are Nigerian, while others are from Ghana, Ethiopia, Angola, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ireland, India, Lebanon and Turkey. They have all suddenly found themselves stranded in a war zone.

Trains and buses have stopped running; roads and bridges out of the city have been destroyed and fighting has been reported in the city’s streets.

The students have remained in five hostel buildings since the Russian invasion began last week, after advice from their university to stay behind – even as many Ukrainian students fled.

Oluwaseun Adefemi, a Nigerian medical student who arrived in Sumy in January, said that food and water supplies were already running low and it was no longer safe to head to local stores.

“We are hearing blasts every day. We have to run into our bunkers each time. Yesterday we heard the blasts at six or seven in the morning. When we hear them, we run to the basement – that’s our makeshift bunker,” he said, speaking by telephone late on Wednesday.

“We are running out of food, we’re running out of water. What we have now is mainly soda water,” Adefemi said.

While the conflict has so far mainly focused on the outskirts of the city, fears are rising that troops may soon enter the city.

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No-fly-zone plea from former Ukraine President.

"Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is pleading with Canada and its NATO allies to enforce a no-fly zone above his country as the Russian military intensifies its aerial bombardment.

Poroshenko said a no-fly zone would give the Ukrainian military a better chance to repel the Russian invasion, which ultimately would benefit Europe and the entire West.

"We're fighting for the security in Europe here, fighting for France, for Germany, for Poland, for Spain. And can you imagine, we're here fighting for Canada," Poroshenko said in an interview with CBC's Power & Politics.

Poroshenko spoke from downtown Kyiv alongside members of a Ukrainian battalion just minutes after air raid sirens were sounded."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poroshenko-no-fly-zone-1.6370760

 

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Russia-Ukraine war: Alex Ovechkin finds sympathy from Capitals GM amid invasion

It's sad that so many Russian citizens are being caught up in the frenzy. At our university, we are working closely with Ukrainian students, faculty, and staff, including visiting faculty, who have ties with Ukrain; and also with Russian students, faculty and staff, including visiting faculty, who have ties with Russia. We are providing support to all, regardless of viewpoint. At this week's faculty senate meeting, a resolution was passed against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, however we did have some abstentions, which is understandable since we have faculty and students from all over the world that represent many of the world's geopolitical divides.

 

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Ukraine, USSR, Russia, territory, war.

"It was during a bizarre meeting of Russia's security council, three days before the invasion, that Mr Patrushev pushed his view that the US's "concrete goal" was the break-up of Russia.

The session was an extraordinary piece of theatre, showing the president holding court behind a desk as one by one his security team walked up to a lectern and expressed their opinion on recognising the independence of Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine.

Nikolai Patrushev passed the test. "He's the one who has the chief battle cry, and there's a sense in which Putin has moved towards his more extreme position," says Ben Noble."
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NEXTA on Twitter
️️️As a result of the shelling at the #Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, a fire started. The exact location of the fire is being specified. CCTV cameras at the plant show flames and smoke

NEXTA on Twitter
CCTV live at the nuclear plant:

 

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@ZekeJMiller
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian government official says smoke visible from Europe’s largest nuclear plant as Russia attacks city of Enerhodar.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Plant spokesman says Russian troops have begun shelling Europe's largest nuclear power station in Ukraine

 

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Andrew Roth on Twitter
Russian airlines now having their jets seized at international airports by the leasing companies, according to Meduza. S7 has canceled its international flights after having a jet seized in Armenia. Could end most Russian international flights if correct.

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Europe's largest nuclear power plant on fire after Russian attack, says local mayor

 

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Spokesperson for Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant Andriy Tuz urges Russian forces to stop their attack on the plant saying "There is a real threat of nuclear danger in the biggest atomic energy station in Europe"

https://twitter.com/skynewsbreak/status/1499546601022492680?s=21

 

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Russian army is firing from all sides upon Zaporizhzhia NPP, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. Fire has already broke out. If it blows up, it will be 10 times larger than Chornobyl! Russians must IMMEDIATELY cease the fire, allow firefighters, establish a security zone!

https://twitter.com/DmytroKuleba/st...herson-kyiv-kharkiv-refugees-russian-invasion

 

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Fire breaks out at Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant
A fire has broken out in Europe’s largest nuclear power plant located in Zaporizhzhya, according to an announcement from the mayor of the nearby town of Enerhodar.

“As a result of continuous enemy shelling of buildings and units of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is on fire,” Enerhodar Mayor Dmytro Orlov said on his Telegram channel, citing what he called a threat to world security. He did not give details, Reuters reports.

Orlov recorded a short video message which has now been shared my multiple local Ukrainian media outlets, urging Russian troops to immediately stop shelling the plant.

Orlov earlier said Ukrainian forces were battling Russian troops on the city’s outskirts. and reported that a Russian military column was heading toward the nuclear plant. Loud shots and rocket fire were heard late Thursday.

According to a Telegram message posted by an employee at the plant, Russian troops fired at the nuclear facility.

“Attention! Equipment of the Russian Federation is firing at the Zaporozhye NPP. There is a real threat of nuclear danger at the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. We demand a ceasefire from heavy equipment at the Zaporozhye NPP!”

Ukrainian news agencies UNIAN and Hromadske also report that a fire has started at the nuclear power plant.
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BNO News @BNONews
BATTLE AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - Zaporizhzhia plant in SE Ukraine - Fierce fighting underway - Administrative building on fire, firefighters unable to respond - Extent of damage unclear - Ukraine calls on Russia to end fighting, warns of nuclear threat

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NEXTA on Twitter
The reactors are located very close to the shelling site. The chance of hitting or ricocheting is very high.



BNO News on Twitter
BREAKING: Firefighters gain access to nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where an administrative building is on fire - ZN

 

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Shutdown of a nuclear power plant.

According to Andrey Tuz, spokesman of the press service of the nuclear power plant, there is no threat of radiation spread.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499555095817728023?s=20&t=n99_-laqQ9yvOCx7cvPrMg

IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency
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#Ukraine regulator tells IAEA there has been no change reported in #radiation levels at the #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant site.

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The Guardian’s Julian Borger has spoken to Mariana Budjeryn, an Ukrainian expert at the project on managing the atom at Harvard University’s Belfer Center.

Budjeryn said:
Saying that a reactor building is hit doesn’t tell us much, because the most vulnerable [part of] this is the electricity and water supply.

If the electricity is taken out, the back up generators kick in, but if those don’t kick in or their diesel fuel is set on fire, for example, the pumps can’t pump cold water into the reactor and into the spent fuel pools. That’s necessary to keep the nuclear reaction moderated. Otherwise the water will boil out and the core will go critical and explode.

If the core explodes, there’s hope that the confinement chamber will capture the radiation from release into the environment. Confinement chambers are designed with withstand some level of impact even bombing.

But of course we don’t know how they will stand to this intensity of shelling

BUT spent fuel pools - the fuel there is not as active, but they are usually overstuffed - so less active but more tightly packed material, also dangerous for going critical if the cooling system fails. And spent fuel pools are not covered by hardened concrete confinement chambers.

We learned about how vulnerable spent fuel pools are during Fukushima

The backup generators failed and the water pumping system failed - it was lucky that ocean water flooded those and the reactor cores to provide cooling.”

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At the moment, the third power unit was shut down at the plant and only the fourth unit is working;
The radiation and fire safety conditions at the nuclear power plant are within normal limits.
https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1499559971289190401?s=20&t=sW7f7J0RM89cQde_N2KXaw

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"Russian troops have been trying to capture the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in recent days."

"According to the Ukrainian state emergency service, the fire broke out in a training building outside the perimeter of the nuclear power plant."

"However, local authorities report that the situation is "under control".

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11m ago02:29

Authorities at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant say the facility is secured and “nuclear safety is now guaranteed” after Russian military shelling starts fire, Agence France-Presse reports.
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President Zelensky:
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1499574413095751683?s=20&t=pGslv4RdeRYWfVfdxNRiPQ

He is saying this is ‘urgent!’ It is the first time in history that a nuclear plant has been targeted. An explosion would mean the ‘end’ of Europe.

Translation:


https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1499576621283840000?s=20&t=pGslv4RdeRYWfVfdxNRiPQ