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By Natalia Zinets and Andrea Shalal

U.N. chief, in Ukraine, says he worried by situation at nuclear plant on front line

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pose for a picture before a meeting, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine August 18, 2022. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Thursday he was gravely concerned by the situation at Europe's largest nuclear power station after it came under shelling at the front lines in Ukraine.

Russia, which captured the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant soon after its Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, said it could shut down the facility - a move Kyiv said would increase the risk of a nuclear catastrophe.

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