US officials today called on Russia to stop military operations around the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Ukraine and added that they support Kyiv's request to create a demilitarized zone in the area.

- The fighting near the nuclear power plant is dangerous and irresponsible, said a State Department spokesman, adding that the United States continues to call on Russia to cease all military operations around the nuclear power plant and return it to the full control of Ukraine.

The spokesperson added that the US "supports Ukrainian calls for the creation of a demilitarized zone around the nuclear power plant".

He added that the US "supports Ukrainian calls for the creation of a demilitarized zone around the nuclear power plant".

That area was bombed again today, and Russia and Ukraine blame each other for those attacks.

The Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres, warned of the danger of a nuclear catastrophe, before an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council on this subject, at the request of Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for the establishment of a demilitarized zone in Zaporozhye, which Russian forces took over on March 4, shortly after the invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.