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[-] LemmynySnicket@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Didn't the Russians dig trenches there and die? Wouldn't that raise the radiation?

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, that could describe all of Ukraine then...

[-] invno1@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

All of Ukraine was not the site of a former nuclear meltdown.

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago
[-] interolivary@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, interesting. Around the time when this was happening, I dismissed the reports of Russian soldiers getting acute radiation syndrome as most likely propaganda because it just didn't seem plausible considering eg that the earth in that area isn't that radioactive even if you dug around in it (although I wouldn't have been surprised if the troops in that area ended up with more cancers years down the line), but I never thought to be suspicious of the sensor readings

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

Sooo... who benefits from the manipulation of the data? Ukraine because it makes Russia look bad? Is it that simple?

[-] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

The staff did a bit of play to make the soldiers worried about digging too much.

But hacking the sensors? Russia knew the radiation spikes were false, had the motive, and that they took the servers with them when they left also leaves them looking particularly guilty.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

The argument seems to be that the staff let the soldiers think there was radiation so they didn't go around breaking shit and would want to leave.

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