Russia has planted explosives round Europe's largest nuclear energy station, in line with intelligence from Ukraine.

President Volodmyr Zelensky issued a video assertion on Tuesday evening, claiming Russian navy "has placed objects resembling explosives on the roof of several power units of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant". He mentioned "it is the responsibility of everyone in the world to stop" Putin's Russia from blowing up the plant.

Ukraine's chief mentioned he had, on Tuesday, held talks with the pinnacle of NATO, France's President Emmanual Macron and the President of Sweden in regards to the newest regarding developments. He mentioned radiation from the plant was a menace to the world - and that vowed that the world "is ready to respond".

It comes after Zelensky warned European leaders that Putin's regime had been "technically ready" to explode the nuclear plant. He instructed Spain's prime minister Pedro Sánchez in Kyiv that the ability was going through a "serious threat" that might be catastrophic for the world.

Now, in a video announcement shared on Twitter, Zelesnky mentioned: "Now we have information from our intelligence that the Russian military has placed objects resembling explosives on the roof of several power units of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

"Perhaps to simulate an assault on the plant. Perhaps they've another situation. But in any case, the world sees – cannot however see – that the one supply of hazard to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant is Russia and nobody else.

"Unfortunately, there was no timely and large-scale response to the terrorist attack on the Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant. And this may incite the Kremlin to commit new evil.

"It is the duty of everybody on the earth to cease it, nobody can stand apart, as radiation impacts everybody."