“We’re getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident,” IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said following multiple attacks against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said attacks against Europe’s largest nuclear power plant have put the world “dangerously close to a nuclear accident”.

Without attributing blame, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said his agency has been able to confirm three attacks against the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant since 7 April.

“These reckless attacks must cease immediately,” he told the Security Council on Monday. “Though, fortunately, they have not led to a radiological incident this time, they significantly increase the risk … where nuclear safety is already compromised.”

  • Neuromancer@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Iraq had Russian air defenses.

    We quickly gain air superiority. Russia can’t even get it in Ukraine.

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      7 months ago

      Iraq had Russian air defenses.

      They had some dated Soviet tech at the end of its lifecycle and a bunch of AA guns without reliable radar targeting support.

      We quickly gain air superiority.

      By attacking through Saudi Arabia, which was an Iraqi blind spot.

      Russia can’t even get it in Ukraine.

      Despite a wealth of NATO arms flowing into Ukraine, they can’t get it either. And Russia’s air force still exists.