Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces -Ukrainian official | Reuters

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been captured by Russian forces, an adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, Mykhailo Podolyak, said on Thursday.

A clued-up friend tells me that the prevailing winds during Europe's winter are from that direction. Putin would be insane to blow it up. Let's hope he's only holding it as part of a mutually-assured-destruction threat.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chernobyl-power-plant-captured-by-russian-forces-ukrainian-official-2022-02-24/