Originally Posted by
DogTailRed2
By attacking the Nuclear Station is Russia desperately trying to get NATO into this war? It's the only reason I can think for for such a potentially disastrous move. If so is Putin struggling to justify this war?
I don't think so. My gut feel on this one is that the approach is simple and brutal:
"if I can't have it, nobody can have it, so I'll wreck it."
There's been a consistent theme of wanton destruction, see also the dam, that this would fit into.