Sec Gen Issues Statement On Ukraine Nuclear Plant Fighting

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has released a statement calling for calm regarding the Zaporizhizhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which is currently occupied by Russian forces and being used as a military base according to the head of Ukraine's nuclear power company, Petro Kotin.

• Link: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2022...
• "I am gravely concerned about the unfolding situation in and around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in southern Ukraine. I have appealed to all concerned to exercise common sense and reason and not to undertake any actions that might endanger the physical integrity, safety or security of the nuclear plant...I am calling on the military forces of the Russian Federation and Ukraine to immediately cease all military activities in the immediate vicinity of the plant and not to target its facilities or surroundings."
• "We must be clear that any potential damage to Zaporizhzhia or any other nuclear facilities in Ukraine, or anywhere else,could lead to catastrophic consequences not only for the immediate vicinity, but for the region and beyond. This is wholly unacceptable."
• There have been reports of increasingly intense fighting around the nuclear plant, with each side blaming the other for the attacks. The plant is the largest nuclear facility in Europe, and Ukraine claims Russia is working towards disconnecting the plant from the Ukrainian grid and linking it up with Russia's.