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

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  • #881
Russia-Ukraine live news: Russian forces seize Zaporizhzhia plant | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

2 hours ago (11:40 GMT)

Putin says Russia’s neighbours should not escalate tensions

Putin has urged Russia’s neighbours not to escalate tensions with Moscow by imposing more sanctions or restrictions on his country, saying the Kremlin has “no bad intentions” towards them.

“I would … advise them [our neighbours] not to escalate the situation, not to introduce any restrictions,” the Russian president said in televised remarks.

“We do not see any need here to aggravate or worsen our relations. And all our actions, if they arise, they always arise exclusively in response to some unfriendly actions, actions against the Russian Federation,” he added.

“I think everyone must think about how to normalise relations, co-operate normally and develop relations normally.”

Putin was shown taking part online, from his residence outside Moscow, in a flag-raising ceremony for a ferry in northern Russia.

4 hours ago (09:28 GMT)

Blinken says NATO does not seek conflict with Russia, but warns alliance is ready for it
NATO will defend all its allies and territory in the event of any Russian attack on the United States-led transatlantic military alliance, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said.

“Ours is a defensive alliance. We seek no conflict. But if conflict comes to us we are ready for it and we will defend every inch of NATO territory,” Blinken told reporters as he arrived for a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers at its headquarters in Brussels.

“And overnight, we’ve also seen reports about the attack against a nuclear power plant. This just demonstrates the recklessness of this war and the importance of ending it and the importance of Russia withdrawing all its troops and engaging in good faith in diplomatic efforts,” he added.

4 hours ago (09:37 GMT)

BBC says Russian block will not stop it providing accurate news
The BBC says it will continue to try and make its news available in Russia after the country’s media watchdog moved to restrict access to the British broadcaster’s Russian-language websites.

“Access to accurate, independent information is a fundamental human right which should not be denied to the people of Russia, millions of whom rely on BBC News every week,” the BBC said in a statement.

“We will continue our efforts to make BBC News available in Russia, and across the rest of the world,” it added.
 
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State of the power units:
  • Unit 1 is in outage.
  • Units 2, 3 have been disconnected from the grid, and the cool down of the nuclear installations is being carried out.
  • Unit 4 is in operation at 690 MW power.
  • Units 5, 6 are being cooled down.
However the loss of cooling nuclear fuel will lead to “significant radioactive emissions into the environment” and such an event “may outgrow all previous NPP accidents, including the Chernobyl NPP and Fukusima-Daichi NPP” the authority says, adding that damage to a reservoir of processed nuclear fuel as a result of the shelling will also lead to radioactive discharge.

It shall be reminded that in addition to six power units at the Zaporizhzhya NPP site, there is a spent nuclear fuel storage facility, damage of which due to shelling will also lead to radioactive releases.

State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine - Updated information about Zaporizhzhia NPP (08:00)
 
  • #884
Up to 400 Ukrainian surrogate mothers could be given refuge in Ireland

Up to 400 surrogate mothers from Ukraine could be given refuge in Ireland, according to a senator advising Irish families whose surrogates are caught in the crossfire of the ongoing conflict.

Fine Gael Senator Mary Seery Kearney who is also a barrister, is advising Irish families who are trying to assist their surrogates and their families.

She is also involved with the families of the four newborn Irish babies in a maternity hospital in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.

Because of their own links to countries like Lithuania, Poland, and Romania, not all of the surrogates will necessarily want to come to Ireland.

But Irish Families Through Surrogacy — one of the country's leading advocates for surrogacy — are helping any of them who do.

Irish families here have already been sending funds over to the Ukrainian women to pay for their transport and that of their families to the Polish border.

Hotel accommodation in Poland and other countries has also been arranged for those families.

The announcement on Tuesday from the Department of Justice that children aged 16 and under can come into the country without a passport has raised the prospect that surrogates and their families could soon now be brought over to live in Ireland.

“This has become my every living moment at the moment,” Senator Seery Kearney said.

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“The Department of Justice announcements regarding visas meant that anyone from Ukraine could travel,” she said.

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She added: "You have to realise these women that gave birth to Irish babies a number of years ago have a continual relationship with the Irish families.

“They're friends of the family, as a consequence of the whole journey, but they don't necessarily have passports for their children.”

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  • #885
19 hours ago
Alec Luhn on Twitter
I've left Russia amid reports martial law could be declared & borders closed. Tickets mostly sold out. Packed flight. Other passengers said they were afraid to be trapped in Russia, arrested or conscripted to fight a war they don't support. Don't know if they'll be able to return

12 hours ago
Martial law in Russia: How potential Putin move would impact Russians

Thu 3 Mar 2022 13.57 EST
Kremlin denies planning to institute martial law in Russia | Russia | The Guardian

1 day ago
On March 4, Russia set to impose martial law – Ukraine’s NSDC secretary
 
  • #886
Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: everything you need to know

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: everything you need to know

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Is there a radiation threat?
Ukrainian authorities on Friday morning said the facility was secured and “nuclear safety is now guaranteed”.

Earlier, the International Atomic Energy Agency said the Ukraine regulator told the agency that there was “no change reported in radiation levels at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant site”.

The US also said their latest information showed no indication of elevated radiation levels at the plant. The US energy secretary, Jennifer Granholm, said the reactors “are protected by robust containment structures and reactors are being safely shut down”.

Russia has already captured the defunct Chernobyl plant, 100km north of Kyiv. Some analysts noted the Zaporizhzhia plant is of a different and safer type to Chernobyl, which was the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986.

The chances of explosion, nuclear meltdown or radioactive release are low, said Tony Irwin, an honorary associate professor at the Australian National University.

Irwin, who operated nuclear power plants in the UK for three decades, is a former manager of the open-pool Australian lightwater (OPAL) reactor, Australia’s only nuclear reactor.

He said the PWR reactors are “a lot safer” than the reactors at Chernobyl, and did not appear to be damaged yet. The reactors have large concrete containments and built-in fire protection systems, he said, adding:

“Obviously, it’s not a good idea if you start shooting massive missiles at reactors,” he said. “The PWR [pressurised water reactor] type is a much safer sort of reactor, because it’s a two-circuit design reactor. The water that keeps the reactor cool is on a separate circuit to the second one, which actually supplies the power to the turbine and the outside.”

“These reactors have back-up emergency cooling systems as well. In addition to the normal reactor cooling, they’ve got a passive system, they’ve got high-pressure injection systems, they’ve got low-pressure injection systems.”

This article was amended on 4 March 2022. Tony Irwin said the PWR reactors had concrete containments, not contaminants.
 
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BBC website ‘blocked’ in Russia as shortwave radio brought back to cover Ukraine war

Access to BBC websites has been restricted in Russia, hours after the corporation brought back its shortwave radio service in Ukraine and Russia to ensure civilians in both countries can access news during the invasion.

State communications watchdog Roskomnadzor restricted access to BBC Russia’s online presence, as well as Radio Liberty and the Meduza media outlet, the state-owned Russian RIA news agency reported on Friday.

According to Globalcheck, a service that tracks internet censorship in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the availability of the entire BBC website was at 17% of normal levels in Russia, which suggests some services have been blocked.

BBC Russia also reported that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, also appeared to be blocked, as was Google Play.

The signs the BBC was being blocked emerged hours after the BBC’s decision to revert to a mostly obsolete form of broadcasting, broadcasting four hours of its world service, read in English, to Ukraine and parts of Russia each day.

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The BBC’s shortwave radio broadcast can be found on 15735 kHz from 6pm to 8pm and on 5875 kHz from midnight to 2am, Ukraine time.

The BBC’s move to bring back shortwave came days after Russia launched two missiles on Kyiv’s TV tower, killing five people and knocking out some access to news and broadcasts.

Ukraine’s defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov, wrote on Twitter that the Kremlin was preparing to cut off communications and spread “massive fake messages that the country’s leadership has given up”.

(...)

The BBC has reported huge increases in its audiences in Ukraine and Russia since the invasion began. In the last week of February, viewership of BBC’s Ukrainian language website more than doubled from a year earlier to 3.9 million visitors. Its Russian-language website has reached a record 10.7 million visitors over the past week, more than tripling its weekly 2022 average.

Shortwave radio uses frequencies that can travel long distances and are accessible on portable radios, making it the go-to method to reach listeners in conflict zones throughout history. Shortwave was used extensively in Europe to broadcast propaganda during the second world war, and usage peaked during the cold war.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/04/russia-ukraine-latest-updates.html

"The biggest threat is nuclear material stored in the station's six nuclear reactors and in the exposure pools," Petro Kotín, head of Energoatom — Ukraine's state-run nuclear power operator, said in a statement Friday. "There are also about 150 containers of processed nuclear fuel in the nuclear fuel warehouse at the site."

He said that with Russian troops who had limited experience handling nuclear material controlling the plant, "the danger is not only to the region, but also to the world."

"During the Chernobyl disaster, the explosion occurred on one power unit — [there are] six of them at the Zaporozhye station, so the consequences of intervention and unprofessional handling of reactor installations will be more catastrophic," Kotin added.

"We are trying to track and control the situation, especially regarding the operation of six energy units and the storage of nuclear fuel. However, the situation is extremely threatening and dangerous. Nuclear and radiation security requirements have been violated. The consequences are hard to predict."
 
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Property of Russian elites could be handed to Ukrainian refugees, says Raab
Everything You Need to Know About Nuclear Power Plants

Nuclear meltdown - Wikipedia.

Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: everything you need to know.

Here is everything we know about the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant accident in Ukraine
Back in August, Greenpeace warned that the six-reactor Zaporizhia plant was vulnerable to “direct bombardment” if caught in the conflict, and that its reactors were not protected from weapons. “There are many armour-piercing weapons in the region, which could penetrate these protective covers,” Greenpeace nuclear expert Tobias Münchmeyer told German newspaper Deutsche Welle.

Physicist Bohdan Sokolovskyi has also previously warned about the safety of the plant, saying it was the “most problematic in Ukraine”.
 
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By Simone McCarthy, CNN - 1h ago rbbm
Ukrainian nuclear power plant fire extinguished as Russian troops 'occupy' facility (msn.com)
''The power plant's six reactors remain intact, though the compartment auxiliary buildings for reactor unit 1 had been damaged, the SNRI said in its statement. Four of the remaining units are being cooled down while one unit is providing power, the statement said.

Separately, Ukraine's nuclear power operator, Energoatom, said the "administrative building and the checkpoint at the station are under occupiers' control." It said staff are working on the power units to ensure their stable operation.

"Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded among the Ukrainian defenders of the station," Energoatom added in a statement posted to Telegram.

Petro Kotin, head of Energoatom, later revealed that management were operating at "gunpoint." He said on Telegram that Russian forces "entered the territory of the nuclear power plant, took control of the personnel and management of the nuclear power plant."

''Kotin warned that although the reactors are safe, further attacks could lead to "disaster."

He said: "Any shell that hits it, will lead to a nuclear disaster. This is the main danger. That is why after the shelling started, we started to put the power units in a safe mode: Two power units were disconnected from the grid, cooling the other two power units began to bring them to the safest state for the nuclear fuel."
 
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@USUNSpox
The United States, the UK, France, Ireland, Norway, and Albania have called an emergency UN Security Council meeting at 11:30ET following Russia's attack on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant in Ukraine.

@USAmbUN
Linda Thomas-Greenfield will speak for the United States.
 
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The attack did not hit a nuclear reactor but a training center in the facility, which accounts for about a quarter of the power generated in Ukraine.

UN watchdog says no radiation released in attack on Ukraine nuclear plant

The Russians have now taken control of the plant and are forcing Ukrainians to work at gunpoint, according to the operator of the facility.
 
  • #897
Russia and Ukraine at war: The latest news on the crisis | CTV News
''WARSAW, Poland — Polish security services say they have arrested a Spanish citizen on suspicion of spying for Russia.

Security services spokesman Stanislaw Zaryn said the man, who was born in Russia but holds a Spanish passport, was arrested on the night of Feb. 27 at a hotel in Przemysl, in southeastern Poland, and had journalist status.

Przemysl, near Poland’s border with Ukraine, is one of the main points where hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees arrive as they flee Russia’s invasion.

Also, thousands of additional U.S. troops recently deployed to Poland to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank are stationed in the area.

The man allegedly was collecting information that was sensitive to Poland’s security and defence, Zaryn told The Associated Press.''
 
  • #898
The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 6 hours ago
Indicative estimates of Russia's losses as of March 4, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.


The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 4 hours ago
⚡️Ukrainian Navy sinks its flagship so that Russians don't get it.
Frigate Hetman Sahaidachny was under repairs in Mykolaiv. The commander was ordered to sink it, according to Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.
Photo: News sites, social media, original source unknown.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
The Times: Volodymyr Zelensky survives 3 assassination attempts in days. Two different groups have been sent to kill him, yet both have been thwarted by anti-war elements within Russia’s Federal Security Service, according to the Times' sources.

The Kyiv Independent on Twitter
A source close to the Wagner mercenary group told the Times it was “eerie” how well briefed Zelensky’s security team appeared to be.
 
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News Archive – The Kyiv Independent
Friday, March 4

16:06
Kremlin spokesman refuses offer of Zelensky-Putin talks.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Russian news websites as saying that Russia wants to continue talking to the Ukrainian delegation. On March 3, President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Putin to “sit and talk” with him.

16:00
Baby lemur born in Kyiv zoo named Bayraktar, after Turkish-made drone used by Ukrainian military.
Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko announced the news while describing the situation in the capital on March 4, adding that stores and pharmacies are running and the city’s hospitals are fully stocked.

15:45
Russia attacks, captures Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine
Russian forces have captured Europe’s largest nuclear power plant at Enerhodar in Zaporizhia Oblast, according to state nuclear operator Energoatom. An earlier fire at a non-critical training center, caused by Russian shelling, was contained, without any damage to the plant, the International...

15:25
Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko said on TV that his country isn't participating or planning to participate in Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
He claimed that the Belarusian forces are protecting the country’s borders. If Belarus joined the war, it would be a ‘gift’ to the West, he added.

14:57
In the nation’s darkest hours, Ukrainians look out for each other
Sixteen-year-old Ukrainian Anna Liutyk will never forget that early morning when she woke up to her mother screaming the most terrifying words she had ever heard. “The war has started,” Liutyk’s mother cried out.“ (Russian dictator Vladimir) Putin started a war.” Multiple...

14:47
Poll: 82% of Ukrainians believe in victory against Russia.
63% of respondents told the Gradus research company that the strength of Ukraine’s military will lead Ukraine to victory, while 61% believe it rests on the unity and resistance of the Ukrainian people. Only 1% of respondents would agree to peace with Russia.

14:38
Ukrzaliznytsia evacuates over 1 million people from Ukraine’s hot spots since the start of Russia’s invasion.
State railway operator says that the main evacuation trains depart from Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, and Kyiv, heading to Lviv, Uzhhorod, Rakhiv, and other cities in western Ukraine.

14:13
Lithuanian PM: 'Calls for NATO no-fly zone in Ukraine are irresponsible.'
“I believe that all encouragements for NATO to get involved into the military conflict now are irresponsible,” Ingrida Simonyte told a news conference in Vilnius, as cited by Reuters.

13:52
Ukraine's military: Russia exhausted most of its operational reserve in Ukraine.
Nine days after the beginning of its full-scale war against Ukraine, Russia has begun transferring troops from its Southern and Eastern Military Districts to replenish its ranks, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

13:15
Panasonic suspends transactions with Russia.
The Japanese electronic conglomerate also decided to donate $173 million to the Polish Red Cross to help Ukrainian refugees at the border and to Peace Winds Japan, an NGO providing assistance to Ukraine.

13:12
Ukraine asks Red Cross to organize humanitarian corridors.
Ukraine’s military is ready to ensure safe passage for civilians’ evacuation and the delivery of food, water, and medicine to the population hit by Russia’s war. “Thousands of people need an urgent evacuation,” the President’s Office said.

12:59
Death toll in attack on Chernihiv rises to 47 people.
38 men and nine women were killed by Russia’s airstrikes and shelling of residential areas on March 3, according to the Ukrainian government. Eighteen people were injured. Chernihiv is a city of 285,000 people, located north of Kyiv.

12:36
UK opposition suggests housing Ukrainian refugees in London's Russian oligarchs' mansions.
Meanwhile, U.K. cabinet minister Michael Gove is drafting plans to seize the properties of Russian oligarchs with close ties to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, according to the Financial Times, but it could take time as government attorneys fear that seizing oligarchs’ houses could violate British property laws.

11:16
Zelensky: Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant disaster would be 6 times worse than Chornobyl.
“Russian tank operators knew what they were shooting at, they directly targeted the station,” said Zelensky. “This night could have been the end of Europe.”
 
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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 41 minutes ago
A Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter jet shot down earlier today near the city of Volnovakha in eastern Ukraine. Photo: Ukraine's Defense Ministry.
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The Kyiv Independent on Twitter - 21 minutes ago
Earlier, as Russian forces approached Enerhodar, thousands of local unarmed civilians came out as a massive crowd to try to block their approach multiple times.

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