Russian Oligarch Deripaska Calls For End Of War Against Ukraine
Source: Radio Free Europe
Russian billionaire tycoon Oleg Deripaska, known for his close ties with President Vladimir Putin, has called for an end to the war in Ukraine.
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Deripaska, who has been sanctioned by the West, warned of a possible nuclear accident at any of Ukraine's nuclear power facilities during the fighting, which would endanger, Russia, Ukraine, and Europe as a whole.
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Deripaska is one of several Russian billionaires to call on the authorities to stop the full-scale military attack against Ukraine launched on February 24.
Mikhail Fridman, Pyotr Aven, Oleg Tinkov, and Aleksei Mordashov -- also billionaires who have been targeted by Western sanctions -- have already publicly called for a cessation of hostilities.
Read more: https://www.rferl.org/a/deripaska-oligarch-ukraine-russia-war/31734624.html
Two more sentences at the link, not much.
nycbos
(6,039 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,856 posts)Roman Abramovich.
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I get my assholes mixed up from time to time.
they have as many assholes as we do. They're almost interchangeable. Very easy to become confused.
Igel
(35,359 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,023 posts)berniesandersmittens
(11,345 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)Ukraine will be rebuilt with your klepto-treasure
ananda
(28,877 posts)and assets started to get seized?
Hmm... I know what I think.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)And even then, publicly worrying about nuke plants is just a cover. Privately to Putin they would be scolding him about the economy. I don't know how strong the language they feel they can get away with (until they push him aside), but it'll be very different from the public writing.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,856 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,543 posts)inside the "Exclusion Zone" of Chernobyl (of all places), which has kicked up radioactive soil.
I had posted this in another thread last week -
Radioactive material that lingers near Chernobyl could cause further calamity.
By Julia Jacobo
February 24, 2022, 5:22 PM
As Russian troops continue to inch their way through its invasion of Ukraine, a secondary catastrophe to the fighting between the ex-Soviet neighbors is possible: another nuclear reaction at Chernobyl.
On Thursday afternoon, Russian armed forces entered the deserted exclusion zone around the Chernobyl power plant, where the world's worst nuclear accident took place in 1986. By night, Russian forces had taken full control of the area, including the plant itself, according to Ukraine Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
The heavy fighting inside the "exclusion zone," a vast and empty land surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear plant that includes the ghost city of Pripyat, is causing concern that it could spark another nuclear disaster. International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano is watching the situation with "grave concern, appealing for "maximum restraint" amid the conflict to avoid putting the nuclear facility at risk.
"It is of vital importance that the safe and secure operations of the nuclear facilities in that zone should not be affected or disrupted in any way," Mariano said in a statement. On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at the power plant, about 65 miles north of the capital Kyiv, exploded, spewing enormous amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere and causing more than 100,000 people in a 1,000-square-mile radius to evacuate.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/concerns-mount-fighting-chernobyl-exclusion-zone/story?id=83085943
By Victoria Gill
Science correspondent, BBC News
1 day ago
The Chernobyl site contains several nuclear waste containment facilities to prevent radioactive materials spreading
A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows. Invading Russian troops took control of the plant - the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986 - on Thursday, Ukraine said. Radiation levels increased about 20-fold on Thursday, monitoring stations there reported.
But experts say another major nuclear disaster there is "extremely unlikely". The rise was caused by heavy military vehicles stirring contaminated soil in the 4,000-sq-km (2,485 sq-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned plant, Ukraine's State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate reported .
The biggest spike was recorded close to the damaged reactor. Radiation levels are continuously monitored there - measured as a dose that you would receive per hour in a location.
Close to the reactor, you would normally receive a dose of about three units - called microsieverts - every hour. But on Thursday, that jumped to 65 microSv/hrs - about five times more than you would get on one transatlantic flight.
(snip)
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60528828
Igel
(35,359 posts)to to elephant (foot) hunting with their avtomaty.
"There's an elephant's foot in there!"
"Let's get it?"
"It's behind this concrete."
"Blast it!"
Ouchie.
paleotn
(17,989 posts)Vomit. Lose hair. Die. Ugh. I wouldn't be all that surprised.
GB_RN
(2,384 posts)It is a polite term for "stole".
ancianita
(36,137 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,085 posts)Putin has to sleep sometime.
Justice matters.
(6,941 posts)Five billionaires with a million each from their offshore bank accounts in fiscal paradises equal a $5 Million bounty for any close officer with just one bullet...
paleotn
(17,989 posts)Enough of them turn on him and it's over. Here's a Makarov, Vlad. Save us the paperwork. They're the real power of the Russian state.
irisblue
(33,034 posts)He knows this, they know this.
Jerry2144
(2,114 posts)that their assets will be frozen until Putin is out of power. The first Oligarch can be restored 1% of his wealth if he helps Putin retire while all others get nothing.