Shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has destroyed part of the fossil-fuel power plant which provided power to keep the nuclear plant cool if it were to shut down. This is a step closer to a nuclear disaster that would affect the whole region.

I have seen no conclusive evidence that proves which side is doing the shelling, but Ukraine has nothing to gain from it, whereas Putin has made a strategy of outrageous threats. It is plausible that he would say, "I'll poison this land if I can't have it. And some of my own land at the same time."

Bluffing is also part of his strategy. That he would say that does not imply he would actually do it.