Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that Russia no need to use nuclear weapon in Ukraine.

Speaking at an international security conference in Moscow, Shoigu also said that military operations in Ukraine were being planned by the US and Britain and that NATO had “several times” increased its deployment of troops in Eastern and Central Europe.

It is noted that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday once again warned that in the event of a “catastrophe” at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, which has been under Russian control since March, all of Europe would be at risk.

The nuclear plant in Zaporozhye, the largest in Europe, was seized in early March by the Russian military during the initial phase of the invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.

Since the end of July, several artillery attacks on the plant have been reported, blamed on each other by the opposing sides, raising fears that a nuclear catastrophe could be provoked. This issue was discussed last week in the UN Security Council.

^{According to Reuters}