The West, which directs and supports the actions of the Ukrainian regime and its armed forces is attempting to provoke a nuclear incident in order to use it as a pretext for entering into open military confrontation with Russia, Zaporozhye lawmaker Renat Karchaa told TASS.

The politician noted that the section of the front line where Energodar and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant are located is overseen by UK military experts.

"The events and processes unfolding here suggest that the British couldn’t care less about Ukraine. They have absolutely no interest in the Ukrainian people, their fate, or their future. Their goal is to fabricate a pretext for declaring us an existential threat to the entire West, to launch a war against Russia, to inflict maximum damage on us, and ultimately to achieve our strategic defeat,” he pointed out.