According to Guterres, the risk of nuclear confrontation has arisen again after several decades.

The UN Secretary General called on the nuclear powers to undertake not to be the first to use such weapons.

"Any attack on a nuclear power plant is 'suicide,'" Guterres told a news conference in Japan after attending a ceremony at the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima to mark the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.

On August 7, the press service of the Ukrainian "Energaatom" reported that in the evening of August 6, Russian troops again launched a missile attack on the Zaporizhia NPP and hit the site directly next to the plant's dry storage of spent nuclear fuel.

According to "Energanatom", as a result of rocket attacks, three radiation control sensors around the site of the dry storage of spent nuclear fuel of the Zaporizhia NPP were damaged.

Also, windows in various buildings of the station were damaged by small fragments from the explosions.

As a result of the explosions, one NPP employee received a shrapnel wound - he was taken to the city hospital.

According to "Energaatom", all Russian military personnel and personnel of the Russian "Rosatom", who were at the station, hid in advance in the bunkers of the crisis center and the technical support center.

In turn, the Russian agency "Interfax" with reference to the press service of the administration of occupied Energodar writes that the missile attack on the territory of the Zaporizhia NPP was carried out by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russia's war against Ukraine

• At 5 o'clock in the morning on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a military operation against Ukraine in the Donbass at the request of the "DPR" and "LPR" groups.

  On February 21, during a televised address to Russians, Putin called the so-called "DPR" and "LPR" independent states within the regions.

  On February 22, the Federation Council ratified this decision.

• All days of the war, Ukrainian cities were bombarded with rockets, aircraft flew over them.

  Russian troops are attacking, including from the territory of Belarus, using airfields, bases and roads.

  Representatives of the Lukashenka regime justify the war, the opposition considers the territory of Belarus occupied and calls for resistance to the Russian invaders.

• On February 27, the International Territorial Defense Legion was created in Ukraine, and foreign volunteers were invited to join it.

  Belarusians also entered there.

  During the three and a half months of the war, several Belarusian volunteers and soldiers of the USU died at the front: Alyaksei "Tur" Skoblya, Ilya "Litvin" Hrenau, Zmytser "Terror" Apanasovich, Zmytser "Hans" Rubashevsky, Konstantin "Phoenix" Dubail, Pavel "Volat" , Ivan "Brest" Marchuk.

  In the battle where Marchuk was killed, another six Belarusian fighters disappeared without a trace.

• It is generally known about 10 fallen Belarusian soldiers of various units, including the Kalinovsky Regiment.

• On June 17, the fighters of the Kalinovsky regiment received the state Ukrainian awards "For combat merits" and "Ukraine above all".

• On March 30, the UN approved the composition of an independent commission that will investigate Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

  It included people who worked in the analysis of the genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• Contrary to Putin's statements about attacks only on military facilities, the Russians are bombing schools, kindergartens and residential areas of Ukrainian cities.

  The Russians are using banned weapons, including cluster bombs, against civilians.

• On April 1, Lithuania became the first country in the European Union to completely abandon Russian gas.

  Latvia and Estonia followed her example.

  Germany has promised to completely stop using Russian oil by the end of 2022.

• On April 2, after the liberation of the town of Bucha near Kyiv, photojournalists published dozens of photographs showing hundreds of dead people, victims of mass murders committed by Russian troops.

  Many are buried in spontaneous mass graves.

  The Russian occupation also brought great destruction to the people of Barodyan.

  It is also known about a number of rapes, including babies.

• In April, missile attacks on Ukraine and airstrikes from the territory of Belarus decreased, Russian troops began to leave Belarus.

• On May 9, the US President signed the Land Leasing Law.

  This law restores the program from the Second World War, which will speed up the delivery of weapons to Ukraine and increase the amount of such assistance.

• On the night of May 17, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Anna Malyar, confirmed the beginning of the operation to rescue the Ukrainian soldiers, who were trapped in the territory of "Azovstal".

  According to her, 53 seriously wounded were evacuated from there to the medical facility of occupied Novoazovsk.

  Another 211 people were brought to Alenivka through the humanitarian corridor.

  The Ministry of Defense of Russia states that almost 1,000 Ukrainian soldiers at the plant "surrendered" as of May 18.

  The International Red Cross officially registered these fighters as prisoners of war.

• Since its inception, thousands of volunteers from 55 countries have joined the Foreign Legion, including Canada, the Baltic States, Poland, Australia, the Netherlands, the USA, the Czech Republic, Finland and other countries.

  Several foreigners who fought for Ukraine were captured and died.

• In June, the so-called "DPR" sentenced two volunteers from Great Britain and one from Morocco to death.

• Since the beginning of the war, 34 journalists have died.

  Some did not perform professional functions, but were mobilized into the Ukrainian army.

• On June 25, Ukrainian troops retreated from the city of Severodanetsk to fortified positions.

  The city was captured by the Russian military.

• On July 29, as a result of an attack on the colony in Alenivtsi, at least 53 Ukrainian prisoners who previously defended the Azovstal plant were killed.

  The Russians accused Ukraine of the attack, the Ukrainian side declared that the prisoners were deliberately killed by the Russian side.

• Independent verification of information about military actions provided by officials of various parties is still impossible.