Ukraine leader makes plea after meeting UN secretary general and Turkish president in Lviv
Volodymyr Zelenskiy
“The UN must ensure the security of this strategic object, its demilitarisation and complete liberation from Russian troops,” Zelenskiy said in a statement after meeting the UN secretary general, António Guterres, and the Turkish president,The three leaders had also been scheduled to talk about grain shipments after a deal last month ended a Russian blockade on Ukrainian ports, as well as discussing negotiations on a political settlement to the war – which next week will enter its seventh...
As the summit began, tensions were mounting over the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the largest in, which was seized by Russian forces in March but is still being run by Ukrainians. Both Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of shelling the plant, and Guterres has previously said he wants a demilitarised zone established around the site.
On Wednesday, the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, warned Russia’s seizure of the plant had “raised the risk of a nuclear accident or incident”, and accused Moscow of being “reckless” by using the area as a staging platform to launch artillery attacks on Ukrainian forces.
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