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The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, told the Security Council that “the risk of a nuclear weapon being used is currently higher than at any time since the depth of the cold war,” and the war in Ukraine “represents the most acute example of that risk.” UNIFEED

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said, “The Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine has thrown us back to an archaic era. An era when a neighboring country’s territory could be attacked and taken, at will, as one’s own. When the identity and history of communities could be denied, and reality rewritten.” UNTV CH

Addressing a reporter about his visit to Zaporizhzhya, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said, “wittingly or unwittingly, reactors were hit.” IAEA

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) Director General, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said that “it is obvious that military activity is increasing” around the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, and that “every possible measure and precaution should be taken so that it is not attacked and can be protected”. IAEA

UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom travelled to Ukraine to meet children and families affected by the war. UNICEF

Secretary-General António Guterres said the United Nations “very much” counts on the European Union “to lead the transformations that are necessary in order to be able to put back on track the 2030 agenda.” COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION / UNRIC

Systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations were committed in Belarus in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election and in its aftermath, finds the latest report of the UN Human Rights Office presented today at the Human Rights Council. UNTV CH

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime inspectors continue providing support as the deal allowing for the sea export of Ukraine grain renewed. UNODC

The United Nations top humanitarian official said it was “vital for global food security” that the Black Sea Grain Initiative, and the parallel Memorandum of Understanding between the Russian Federation and the UN Secretariat on the facilitation of Russian food and fertilizer exports continue, “and should be fully implemented.” UNIFEED

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued warrants of arrest for two individuals in the context of the situation in Ukraine: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova. ICC