Attack on Ukraine nuclear plant ‘suicidal’, says UN chief as he urges access to site
by Isobel Koshiw in Kyiv, Jennifer Rankin, and agenci from World news | The Guardian on (#628VJ)
Atomic watchdog seeking access to Zaporizhzhia, Europe's largest atomic energy plant, after shelling damages radiation sensors and injures worker
The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, has called for international inspectors to be given access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after Ukraine and Russia traded accusations over the shelling of Europe's largest atomic plant at the weekend.
Any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing," Guterres told a news conference in Japan on Monday, two days after attending the Hiroshima peace memorial ceremony to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.
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