This week as Russia again targeted Ukraine's energy infrastructure with more missiles, Ukrainian officials moved to power down reactors within some of the nation's nuclear plant network. Ukraine's nuclear power stations need round-the-clock electricity to prevent reactors from melting down. But the under-fire Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear station - which was again rocked by shelling last weekend - cannot be made safe by this measure alone. Click to subscribe to Ukraine War Diaries wherever you get your podcasts Since the early months of the war, the station - the biggest of its kind in Europe - has found itself bombarded almost to the point of disaster, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Both Russia and Ukraine blame each other. But while the threat of Russian nuclear escalation in the form of tactical or thermo-nuclear weapons has continually stalked the conflict, many Ukrainians, like Ilyas Verdiev, believe the Kremlin will first engineer a nuclear disaste