![]() I think to include that video that you were showing. It seemed like most of that action was happening right in this area. This is yet another violation of international law and international norms by Russia. There are international conventions to prohibit such attacks. A nuclear power plant has never come under direct attack. JOSEPH CIRINCIONE, NUCLEAR RECURITY ANALYST: I`m very worried like so many incidents in the last week. But how worried should we be about what`s happening at this plant? Joe to you first, I know you`re not there, and we`re getting a lot of different information over the last couple of hours. ambassador to Russia and MSNBC international affairs analyst. Clint Watts, West Point graduate, Army veteran and former FBI Special Agent, Joseph Cirincione, nuclear security analyst and Distinguished Fellow at the Quincy Institute, also the author of "Nuclear Nightmares, Securing the World Before it`s Too Late," Peter Baker, Chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and former Moscow bureau chief for The Washington Post. With that, let`s bring in our experts this evening. RUHLE: Cal, stay close when you have any updates. That doesn`t not seem to be stopping them, as I said, from indiscriminately showing these civilian areas, Stephanie. We had heard reports that they had been bogged down, that they had been slowed down. That number, Stephanie, is only going to rise as we continue to see the Russian army now focusing their attention on these civilian areas. All of this is going to add to the refugee crisis more than a million people having already fled the country that does not account for the internally displaced persons. And they turn on that morning news, they`re going to see that shelling of that power plant, the local weather carrying out reports of which way the wind is blowing in this country. So it could be possible they were trying to get to that plant to cut off the power.Īnother possibility is this is a continuation of a campaign to terrorize the public here across the country. So you have a civilian population being terrorized now by indiscriminate shelling stuck in these cities in what are very cold conditions. That is they bombed the local power infrastructure not just to knock electricity out, Stephanie, but to knock out the heat. ![]() When we look at what`s happening in the north of the country, we understand that there are villages that have been being bombed for up to 24 hours and that the power was cut there locally. Number one, this power plant provides power for 25 percent of Ukraine. When you take a step back and you look at this, there`s a few things here that the Russian army could be doing. ![]() CAL PERRY, NBC NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Look at this hour, we understand that the plant is secure as you said the fire in a training building three hours ago, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs saying the fire was in the plant calling on the world to wake up saying that an explosion could potentially be 10 times larger than Chernobyl.
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