 Russia, Kiev seeks to draw NATO directly into Ukrainian conflict. Moscow urges the US-led West to stop the Kiev authorities from carrying out a terrorist attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as Kiev seeks to draw NATO directly into the conflict, Russian ambassador to Washington Anatoly Antonov said. We call on the curators of the Kiev regime to exercise responsibility and exert influence on their wards in order to avoid a large-scale catastrophe. Western ruling elites should understand that the failures on the battlefield make Kiev eager to create a pretext for the deployment of the NATO contingent to Ukraine, thereby to inflate a regional conflict into World War III. American and European citizens are hardly ready to march in orderly rows to hell, into which the Zelensky government is dragging the entire planet. The envoy said, commenting on the Ukrainian government's allegations about Russia's plan to blow up the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Statements that Russia is preparing a provocation against the nuclear power plant it controls are absurd. Russian citizens work at the facility, IAEA experts who cannot but know who is shelling the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant are present there on a rotational basis too, the Russian ambassador pointed out. The reactors are protected, however, besides power units there are more vulnerable infrastructure facilities. Cooling systems, storage sites for fresh fuel and nuclear waste. Any projectile hit is extremely dangerous as radiation contamination of vast territories can follow Antonov added.