INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned Thursday of a nuclear disaster in Ukraine during his first face-to-face talks with President
facility in Russian-controlled southern Ukraine has sparked urgent warnings from world leaders, and UN chief Antonio Guterres cautioned
during talks with Erdogan that any damage to the plant would be akin to "suicide.""We are worried
We don't want another Chernobyl," Erdogan said during a press conference in the eastern city of Lviv, during which he also assured the
Ukrainian leader that Ankara was a firm ally."While continuing our efforts to find a solution, we remain on the side of our Ukraine
friends," Erdogan said.Guterres said he was "gravely concerned" about the situation at the plant and that it had to be demilitarized,
the Kremlin but maintains a close working relationship with President Vladimir Putin, met with the Russian leader less than two weeks ago in
the Black Sea resort of Sochi.The Turkish leader and Guterres were key brokers of a deal inked in Istanbul last month allowing for the
Zelensky, Ukraine's port authority announced that the 25th cargo ship under the deal had departed for Egypt carrying 33,000 tons of
global food shortage mount.Guterres said during the meeting with reporters that the sides hoped to intensify efforts to bolster operations
at three southern ports designated to handle exports under the deal."We will do our best to scale up our operations to face..
the coming winter," he said.Guterres continued his visit on Friday with a trip to Odesa, one of the ports involved, and was expected to
later head to Turkey to visit the body tasked with overseeing the exports accord.'They should leave'The success of the grain deal contrasts
our territory and then we'll see."Fighting raged along the front on Thursday and early Friday.Bombardments across the city of Kharkiv and
nearby Krasnograd left at least six dead and 25 injured on Thursday, just one day after Russian bombardments killed 13 in the country's
second-largest urban center.Early-morning shelling on Friday also targeted the city of Nikopol, according to a local military official,
while the mayor of Mykolayiv reported "massive explosions" there around the same time.Meanwhile, two Russian villages in Belgorod province
were evacuated on Thursday after a fire broke out at an ammunition depot near the Ukrainian border, local authorities said.The blaze came
amid a slew of blasts at Russian military installations near Ukraine, one of which Moscow has acknowledged to be an act of
"sabotage."'Provocation' at Zaporizhzhia?Fighting in recent weeks has focused around the southern region of Zaporizhzhia and the nuclear
facility there, and Zelensky called on the UN to ensure security at the plant after direct talks with Guterres, while also
fears of a nuclear incident.Moscow dismissed Ukrainian allegations Thursday, saying its forces had not deployed heavy weapons at
plant."Kyiv, however, insisted it was Moscow that was planning a "provocation" at the facility.Ukrainian military intelligence said in a
Facebook post on Thursday night that it had received reports that all but a "small part of operational personnel" at the plant had been
facility."Considering the number of weapons that are currently located on the territory of the nuclear plant, as well as repeated
provocative shelling, there is a high probability of a large-scale terrorist attack at the nuclear facility," it said.NATO Secretary General
