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Life in Kyiv

The LRB Podcast

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The Russians and the Nuclear Power Station

There are no bridges that the Ukrainians can blow up or not enough anyway. Quite how Ukraine might reproduce the conditions that led to a Russian retreat west of the river is not clear. It's not really clear how we go from here unless it's two years of artillery battles. If they were to do that and they really did intend to create a nuclear disaster, then the main areas that will be damaged are areas that are presently there strongholds in southern Ukraine. I mean, you could drop a nuclear weapon on the nuclear power plant. But more to the point, what would that signify?

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