The head of Ukraine's state nuclear energy company called on Monday, August 8, to make the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye a weapon-free zone, warning of the danger of a Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster after the site was bombed.
He called for the deployment of a team of peacekeepers to the site in televised remarks after Ukraine and Russia accused each of bombing the nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, located in the southern part of Russia -controlled Ukraine .
In a related context, local media reported, last Saturday, that one of the nuclear reactors in Zaporizhia had stopped after the exchange of bombing between Russia and Ukraine , Al-Arabiya channel reported.
On the ground, the Russian military operation continues in Ukraine, since its beginning on February 24.
The Russian-Ukrainian conflict gained a new turning point, on February 21, after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent republics of Ukraine, in an escalatory step that drew great anger from Kyiv and its Western allies.
Following this, at dawn on Thursday, February 24, the Russian forces began launching a military operation against eastern Ukraine, which opened the door to the possibility of the outbreak of a "third world war", which would be the first in the twenty-first century.
The European Union said the world has been living in a "blacker atmosphere" since World War Two, while the European Union and the United States imposed a package of sanctions against Russia, which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described as "the toughest ever".
However, the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization "NATO" have so far insisted not to engage in any military operation in Ukraine, and the EU countries also refuse to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine, contrary to the desire of Kyiv, which called on European countries to take that step, Which the US administration said would cause a "third world war".
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier that the outbreak of a third world war would be "nuclear and destructive," as he described it.
On the scene of the events, the Russian Defense Ministry said, at the beginning of the military operation, that the Ukrainian air defense system and its bases had been destroyed and the infrastructure of the Air Force was out of service.