Russia commanders 'threatens to blow up Ukrainian nuclear power plant'

The Russian commander in charge of Europe’s largest nuclear plant has wired it with explosives and threatened to blow it up if Ukraine tries to take it back, Kyiv claims.

Major-general Valery Vasilyev, who commands Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical protection troops, has reportedly told Ukraine about the bombs and warned: ‘This will be either Russian land or scorched earth.’

Vasilyev also told his men that even if they are given ‘the toughest order, we must fulfil it with honor,’…