Ukraine news latest: Putin’s forces strike near Europe’s biggest nuclear plant as Biden says world faces ‘Armageddon’

VLADIMIR Putin’s forces have shelled the city near where Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is located, the Ukrainian state nuclear company has said. The ongoing shelling from Russian forces is increasing the threat of a nuclear disaster in Ukraine region of Zaporizhzhia. It comes as Joe Biden warned the world is facing nuclear “Armageddon” if Vladimir Putin uses his arsenal – and said the despot “isn’t joking”. After Russia’s invasion eight months ago, Putin has made thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons if he feels he has run out of options in his bid to seize swaths of Ukrainian territory in the face of stiff resistance by Western-back Kyiv. “We have not faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis” in 1962, Biden said Thursday in New York, adding that “we’re trying to figure out what is Putin’s off-ramp”. Read our Ukraine-Russia live blog below for the latest updates…