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Putin is “likely” to exploit an under-siege nuclear plant in Ukraine in a sick game of nuclear blackmail, military experts have warned.The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, located near the frontline of the bloody battle for the eastern European country, is Ukraine’sbiggest and earlier had triggered fears it could melt down in a similar way to the infamous disaster at Chernobyl in 1986.Russian forces kidnapped the plant’s director-general Ihor Murashov in a worrying development on September 30 last week, with the man remaining in an unknown location.READ MORE: Brit captured by Russians in Ukraine 'wants to go back and fight' after being freedNow, experts from the Institute for the Study of War have warned the move is “likely” an attempt from the brutal invader “to assume legal responsibility for the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant”.They wrote: “Russian authorities will likely seek to exploit their control of the ZNPP… “To pressure the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to legitimise the illegal Russian annexations of occupied Ukrainian territory by coercing it to acknowledge Russia‘s legal control over the ZNPP.” Terrified experts have warned the bloody Russian military – who stand accused of committing morbid war crimes in Ukraine – should not be in control of a nuclear power. Energoatom president Petro Kotin stressed: “His detention jeopardizes the safety of Ukraine and Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

Russia and Ukraine after the latter's president has promised to attack Russian troops who refuse to leave a nuclear plant.The Russians have ignored calls to demilitarise the Zaporizhia nuclear plant they have seized as atomic energy chiefs say the actions of Vladimir Putin's troops have caused the risk of a repeat of the nuclear disaster that occurred in 1986.Russia was accused of "nuclear blackmail" by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy and has warned Putin that his soldiers will have no option but to attack the Russians should they continue firing at citizens.READ MORE:Three fighter Brits in Ukraine face death penalty in disgraceful Russian secret trialsZelenskyy called the Russian troops "special targets" as 500 of them are currently placed at the nuclear plant since storming the site in March while Ukrainian technicians continue to run reactors.Petro Kotin, the boss of the company that run the plant, said that there are 174 containers of radioactive material currently in danger of being hit, in a situation that could become reminiscent of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster that was rated at seven on the International Nuclear Event Scale, which is the maximum severity of a nuclear event.He said: “We could have a radiation cloud.