UN chief condemns shelling of Ukraine nuclear plant as "suicidal"

• Energoatom, Ukraine’s nuclear power operator, accused Russia of carrying out the attack and announced that one employee had been injured as a result.
• Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for a stronger international response to "Russian nuclear terror" while European Council President Charles Michel condemned Russian military activity around the plant, calling it a "serious and irresponsible breach of nuclear safety rules."
• Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the shelling "underlines the very real risk of a nuclear disaster."

What they're saying: "I believe this is the moment when the risk of nuclear confrontation is back — something that we have forgotten for decades," Guterres said at a press conference in Tokyo on Monday.

• "Any attack to a nuclear plant is a suicidal thing and I hope that those attacks will end," he added of the shelling at Zaporizhzhia.

• Guterres also voiced support for the IAEA's efforts to stabilize conditions around the plant and called for the IAEA to be granted access to the plant.

Flashback: Russian forces captured the plant back in March and have kept control of it since then, though the plant is still being kept operational by its Ukrainian staff.