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Anne Applebaum Jul 5, 2023

Zelensky is issuing a warning. Why is there so little reaction?

"We have information from our intelligence that the Russian military has placed objects resembling explosives on the roof of several power units of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant..... Unfortunately, there was no timely and large-scale response to the terrorist attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. And this may incite the Kremlin to commit new evil.

https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1676336904285966336?s=20

Володимир Зеленський on Twitter

“Now we have information from our intelligence that the Russian military has placed objects resembling explosives on the roof of several power units of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Perhaps to simulate an attack on the plant. Perhaps they have some other scenario. But in…”

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Grandpa Dave 🇺🇲🇺🇦Jul 5, 2023

@anneapplebaum An attack on the power plant would be a huge escalation from Russia. How likely is it that Ukraine would retaliate with a dirty bomb in Moscow?

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@GrandpaDave @anneapplebaum I can't speak for my country, but if someone blew up a nuclear reactor in my neighborhood and my family died and I survived, and I had access to a dirty bomb, I'd put that in my truck and drive it myself to the enemy's capital and blow it up or die trying brah...