Ukraine calls for urgent UN-led intervention and the presence of peacekeepers to secure the shelled Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex.
has grown with Kyiv warning of a Chornobyl-style catastrophe and appealing for the area to be a demilitarised zone.Russia says it is ready to enable UN watchdog visit to the plantThe United Nations chief called for UN nuclear inspectors to be given access to the plant as Kyiv and Moscow traded blame for the shelling.
"The decision that we demand from the world community and all our partners … is to withdraw the invaders from the territory of the station and create a demilitarised zone on the territory of the station," Mr Kotin said on television. Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, Ukraine's ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency , accused Russia of trying to cause electricity blackouts in government-controlled areas of Ukraine's south."We really need it urgently, as soon as possible," Mr Tsymbaliuk said.
Ukraine said it is planning to conduct a major counter-offensive in the Russian-occupied south, apparently focused on the city of Kherson, west of Zaporizhzhia, and that it has already retaken dozens of villages.Turkish-flagged cargo ship Polarnet, carrying Ukrainian grain, reaches its final destination at the Kocaeli province,Turkey.
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