But… Zaporizhzhia is currently in the status of “temporarily occupied”. It’s on Ukraine’s territory. Since we have to suspend belief because all data we’re getting is propaganda, the possibility that it’s going to be liberated cannot be ruled out just like that.

It would seem to me that Ukraine (i.e. the country where the power plant resides in) stands to lose much more from a nuclear disaster inside their own borders. That they would do that just to get NATO into the conflict more seems more like a conspiracy theory.