“The shelling of the territory of a nuclear power plant by the Ukrainian armed forces is a potentially extremely dangerous activity, which, if aggravated, is fraught with catastrophic consequences for a vast, vast territory, including the territory of Europe,” Peskov said.

He expressed the hope that Western countries, which have "absolute influence on the Ukrainian leadership," use it to prevent such shelling in the future.

Earlier, the military-civilian administration of Energodar reported that on the night of August 7, the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant from the Uragan MLRS.

Igor Vishnevetsky, Deputy Director of the Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control of the Russian Foreign Ministry, expressed concern that the shelling of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant by the Armed Forces of Ukraine could lead to disaster.

Also, the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Mikhail Mizintsev, warned that in the event of an accident at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant due to attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a global man-made disaster would occur, which would exceed the scale of the consequences of accidents at nuclear power plants in Chernobyl and Fukushima.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an end to the "suicidal" attacks on the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.