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https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/03/4/7328008/ (link in Russian, that's a big newspaper in Ukraine) the units of chechen warlord Kadyrov are fighting inside the building of the power station, and are said to be laying mines, as a means of exerting pressure. What could go wrong...

This kadyrov is totally mad, they introduced Sharia law in their chechen republic, and putin doesn't want to interfer with this madness, as he fears to provoke them and also needs them for his military adventures...

https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/03/4/7328011/ Zelensky made an announcement, if the power station explodes, then that's the end for Europe, the thing is six times bigger than Chernobyl.

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"and putin doesn't want to interfer with this madness"

Putin installed Kadyrov.

"On 2 March 2007, following Putin's nomination of Kadyrov as Chechen president, the Chechen parliament approved the nomination." Wikipedia

of course you are correct, they coopted Chechnya, after the second Chechen war [1] Now a month ago they had a big scandal with an ex-chechen judge, forces under the command of kadyrov snatched the wife of the judge from a region that is not part of Chechnya. This was a big scandal, as the authority of the central government in Moscow is kind of put into question. Putin did avoid a conflict with Kadyrov, i think that makes sense in hindsight: he needed kadyrov and his forces for the planned war... See here: [2] All that happened a month before the outbreak of the war; that may be an indication, that the war was already a decided matter, at that point in time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chechen_War

[2] https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-chechnya-judge-flees-wife-abd...

Thank you for pointing out that the plant is 6 times bigger. I watched the HBO series Chernobyl and it opened my eyes to the dangers of a nuclear meltdown. I hope the new containment tech is enough to avoid a disaster.

There is no "new containment tech" that contains a reactor breach.

Things like the (non-existent) molten salt reactor try to reduce the risk of a runaway meltdown, but do nothing to stop the danger if the reactor itself is broken open.

That show was basically fiction. https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/chernobyl/

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