The EU people who track this don't seem to have a corresponding increase on their radiation map. Since it seems like rhe SaveEcoBot radiation map didn't exist before last week, it's a bit sus
Russia wants Chernobyl for strategic reasons, not because the reactors are useful to them[1].<p>It seems that shelling may be dispersing radioactive material[2].<p>1. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/russia-want-take-chernobyl-rcna17615" rel="nofollow">https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/russia-want-t...</a><p>2. <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/chernobyl-nuclear-plant-targeted-as-russia-invades-ukraine" rel="nofollow">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/24/chernobyl-nuclear-p...</a>
Looks like information war. Russians does not have enough military to win war with Ukraine, so trying to convince Ukrainians, that something terrible happen.<p>And sure, for this they captured Chernobyl site and cut communications, so now could simulate anything.<p>At the moment, those attacks have only one real win - mobile networks where overloaded, so become unusable, and nothing more.