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    Russia is reducing its presence at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate (GUR) has claimed, with staff told to relocate to Crimea and military patrols scaled back.

    The agency’s chief, Kyrylo Budanov, has alleged Moscow has approved a plan to blow up the station and has mined four out of six power units, as well as a cooling pond. Last week Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said Russia was plotting a “terrorist attack”.

    According to the GUR, several representatives of Russia’s state nuclear energy agency, Rosatom, have already left. Ukrainian employees who stayed at the plant and signed contracts with Rosatom had been told to evacuate by Monday, preferably to Crimea, it said.

    I guess they could blow it up soon. Horrifying.

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        Grossi asserted that he “didn’t see that kind of development” on the ground, but also that “anything can happen, that is what worries me”.

        IAEA is not confirming it, but I think it’s a stretch to get “pure deranged nonsense” from that quote.

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              In the opinion of any sane person, and what IAEA says is that there is no substance to the conspiracy theory being peddled here.

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                It is fascinating how personal biases shape our communications and beliefs.

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                    Right, Russia just keeps blowing up their own pipelines, dams and nuclear power plants. Imagine being a grown ass adult and actually believing that. When nord stream was blown up all the media in the west screeched that it was Russia who did it. Now slowly admissions are coming out that it wasn’t Russia. Yet, here we are again each time a piece of infrastructure Russia controls is under attack, people inexplicably think that Russia destroyed it.

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                Russia has claimed to destroy more of every system than the west has sent, before they were even fully sent. Visually confirmed loss data has proven that Russia lies consistently about loss ratios vs Ukraine and number of systems and personnel lost, and have been throughout the entire war. Ukraine lies to some degree too, but no where near as much the Russians lie. You can believe me if you want, and I know you probably won’t, but for everyone else reading, anyone telling you to take the russian claims as truth (or Ukrainian for that matter, or anywhere that isn’t open source and/or transparent about its methodology with plenty of proof to back it up), is probably lying to you, either willfully or ignorantly.