Remember when Russian forces invading Ukraine dug in around Chernobyl?

[thewayne]

Guess what! They're developing severe radiation sickness and related problems!

This obviously comes as no surprise to a lot of people. Russet and I were discussing it. Chernobyl popped its top - literally! - THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO! People under 30, meaning most of the people in the invading Russian Army and probably their direct commanders, weren't alive back then! And with Russian news suppression, it's probably not well-known among them. I can understand them not taking it seriously, whereas a 50 y/o might actually remember it happening and know that digging there is bad juju.

This is yet another major thing to be laid at the feet of Putin and his lackies. A lot of these people are going to die in pretty horrible ways, and it didn't need to happen.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/red-forest-chernobyl-radiation-sickness-b2330067.html

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/04/30/2153204/russian-forces-suffer-radiation-sickness-after-digging-trenches-and-fishing-in-chernobyl

Comments

[thewayne]

Now, you bring up an interesting point.  I listened to a news piece about Putin's personal wealth - and as far as anyone can determine, he doesn't have much!  What he has is the political power to say "I'd really like a new dacha near this lake", and his cronies who own construction companies build it and give him the keys.  Which is not to say that he doesn't have bundles very cleverly squirreled away, they just can't find any.

[silveradept]

He probably has his wealth more carefully concealed than the people who are going to take falls for him. I still think that in addition to whatever penalties could be addressed against the country, that he should have personal responsibility for endangerment in the Chernobyl situation, because it's been well known what would happen if you did that kind of thing for decades, and he still ordered it to happen.