NEW: This video shows clear damage from heavy weapons on the elevated walkways between the reactor buildings at Zaporizhzhya NPP. This is well inside the plant perimeter.
It appears to have been shot at approximately [47°30'35.50"N, 34°35'13.34"E].
And an undated on-the-ground photo showing the walkway system.
This damage is around .50 km from the building that caught fire.
Final thought: the walkways will not be hardened but the reactor buildings are. Just because this ordinance (whatever it was) could penetrate the walkways doesn’t mean the reactors have sustained serious damage.
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Here's the latest on what's happening at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, with some observations.
First a recap: overnight, Russian troops engaged Ukrainian security forces at the plant.
An administrative building used for training caught fire during the fighting. The building [47°30'17.52"N 34°35'19.25"] is approximately half a kilometer from the unit one reactor.
That fire is now out according to both Ukrainian authorities and the @iaeaorg.
@iaeaorg According to @iaeaorg radiation levels remain normal and critical safety systems are in operation at the plant.
However, a statement from Ukraine's regulator says that the plant's Unit 1 reactor, which was closest to the fighting, did sustain some battle damage.
BREAKING: This webcam, geolocated to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, main gate appears to show combat vehicles engaged in active fighting around the plant. (H/T @GeorgeWHerbert)
@GeorgeWHerbert Can anybody identify these vehicles? Look like APC/IFVs of some kind?
The @iaeaorg has also put out a statement that a large number of Russian armor and troops have broken through a barricade near the plant. The plants operators describe the situation as critical: iaea.org/newscenter/pre…
First, Putin has brought nuclear weapons into the conversation multiple times. Once at the start of the conflict, he made veiled mention of them and again on Sunday, when he ordered his nuclear forces into a “special mode of combat duty.”
What’s a special mode of combat duty? Probably not a higher alert level. @russianforces suggests it may be an order to activate the Russian command and control system, which can’t be used to launch weapons in peacetime. Or it may just be a matter of adding more personnel.
Ben Bergquam gave a pretty full account of what happened to him in his facebook video. He became sick before Christmas and started taking alternative therapies including hydroxychloroquine, zinc, vitamin D, and other unspecified treatments (possibly ivermectin).
But according to his own account they didn't work. His fever spiked at 105, and he had serious trouble breathing.
He then went in on Day 8 to seek monoclonal antibody treatment (a proven therapy) and antibiotics for COVID-induced bilateral pneumonia. Also proven...
A little background on what's going on. For much of the pandemic, ati-vaccine groups have been pushing alternative therapies for COVID-19. These groups claim vaccines are dangerous, and that drugs like ivermectin can cure COVID.
They also sell prescriptions for 💵💵💵.
These unproven therapies are promoted by conservative media figures, including Steve Bannon (for whom Bergquam has worked).
CDC data shows ivermectin prescriptions have surged in the pandemic.
Most doctors won't prescribe it, so where are these prescriptions coming from?
Over the past few months @DanielPWWood and I have been looking at the connection between COVID deaths, vaccinations and election results. We found counties that went heavily Trump in 2020 had higher death rates. And lower vaccination rates.
@DanielPWWood To me, this correlation is b-a-n-a-n-a-s. There is NO reason election results and deaths from a disease should have ANYTHING to do with each other. For example, state flu deaths don't appear to match the election map. Why would they?
(NB, I'm not being rigorous here)
@DanielPWWood And yet there it is. An apparently massive connection between how a county voted and how many people are dying from COVID-19. How can this be? After a lot of research, I've concluded it comes down to basically two things: