Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom said Russian hackers launched a major three-hour attack on its website but did not cause significant problems, Reuters reported.
"The Russian group 'People's Cyber Army' carried out the strongest hacking attack since the beginning of the Russian invasion, but it did not significantly affect the operation of the site," Energoatom said in a statement.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres will visit Ukraine this week, Reuters reports.
He will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Lviv on Thursday, then visit the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Friday, a UN spokesman said.
The first ship with grain that sailed from Ukraine under the agreement on the continuation of grain exports from that country arrived today in the Syrian port city of Tartus, and not in Lebanon as originally planned.
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Former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on the world to honor the civilians killed in Bucha when the Russian army tried to attack Kiev and then retreated, the Associated Press (AP) reported, citing N1.
He visited Bucha, a city near the Ukrainian capital, where the bodies of hundreds of dead civilians were found after the Russian withdrawal at the end of March.
"It is difficult to express feelings. It is a terrible crime. It is a crime against humanity and those responsible should be held accountable," Ban Ki-moon said.
Clouds of black smoke were seen Tuesday at a Russian military base near the settlement of Gvardeyskoye in the center of Russian-controlled Crimea, Russian newspaper Kommersant reported.
Earlier on Tuesday, Russia's Defense Ministry separately blamed a series of explosions around Zhankoy in northern Crimea on "sabotage", state news agency RIA reported.
Ukraine has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the recent series of explosions in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday that a military warehouse near the town of Zhankoy in northern Crimea was damaged by sabotage, the Russian state news agency RIA reported, Reuters reports.
Earlier on Tuesday, Crimean officials said a large fire had broken out at an ammunition depot in the area. State news agency TASS quoted the Ministry of Defense as saying that civilian infrastructure, including an electricity supply station, was damaged as a result of "sabotage".
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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said during a speech at the Moscow International Security Conference that Russia has no need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
Shoigu also stated that the Ukrainian military operations are planned by the United States and Britain and that NATO has "several times" increased the deployment of its troops in Eastern and Central Europe.
Shoigu said that AUKUS (a bloc of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America) has the potential to develop into a "political-military alliance."
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Western countries are seeking to expand a "NATO-like system" to the Asia-Pacific region, Reuters reports.
Speaking at an international security conference in Moscow, Putin said the United States was trying to "drag out" the conflict in Ukraine and that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan earlier this month was a "thoroughly planned provocation."
Russia's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday there were no serious casualties in an explosion at an ammunition depot in the Russian-controlled Crimean town of Maiskoye earlier on Tuesday, state news agency RIA reported, Reuters reported.
Interfax quoted the Ministry of Defense as saying that the fire broke out in a temporary ammunition storage facility.
Ukraine can export 3 million tons of grain from its ports in September, and in the future it could export from them 4 million tons per month, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Yuriy Vaskov said on Tuesday.
He said that Ukraine has received requests for 30 ships to come to Ukraine in the next two weeks to export grain.
Ukraine's grain exports have fallen since Russia invaded on February 24 and blockaded Ukraine's Black Sea ports, but three Black Sea ports were unblocked last month under a deal between Moscow and Kiev that allowed hundreds of thousands of tonnes of Ukrainian grain to be shipped to buyers.
An ammunition warehouse exploded in the north of Crimea, the Russian news agency TASS reported on Tuesday, citing the administration of the Mayskoye settlement, Reuters reports.
Earlier on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reported on a fire at a substation near the town of Dzhankoy in Crimea.
Britain said on Tuesday that Russia's Black Sea Fleet is currently struggling to maintain effective control of the sea, with patrols largely limited to waters near the Crimean coast.
As reported by Reuters, the Black Sea Fleet continues to use long-range cruise missiles in support of the land offensive, but maintains a defensive posture, the British Ministry of Defense said in its daily intelligence bulletin on Twitter.
The Black Fleet's currently limited effectiveness undermines Russia's overall invasion strategy, in part because the amphibious threat to Odessa has now been largely neutralized, the intelligence update added.
Any mission undertaken by the United Nations (UN) nuclear agency to inspect the Ukrainian power plant in Zaporozhye cannot pass through the capital Kiev because it is too dangerous, Russian deputy head of the nuclear proliferation and arms control department at the foreign ministry Igor said on Tuesday. Vishnevetsky, Russian news agencies reported.
"Imagine what it means to pass through Kiev -- it means that they reach the nuclear power plant through the first line," Vishnevetsky told reporters, as quoted by the RIA news agency.
"This is a huge risk, given that the Ukrainian armed forces are not all composed in the same way.
UN spokesman Stefan Dužarik said Monday in New York that the UN secretary had assessed that it had the logistical and security capacity to support any IAEA mission at the Russian-controlled plant in Zaporozhye from Kiev.
The Tass news agency quoted Vishnevecki as saying that no such mission had a mandate to deal with the "demilitarization" of the power plant demanded by Kiev, as it could only deal with "meeting IAEA guarantees."
Five more ships have left Ukrainian ports carrying corn and wheat, three from Chernomorsk and two from Pivdeni, as part of a United Nations (UN)-brokered grain export agreement, the Turkish Defense Ministry said on Tuesday, Reuters reports.
It added that four more ships bound for Ukraine would be inspected on Tuesday by a joint coordination center set up in Istanbul by Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Nations.
One of the ships that departed on Tuesday was the Brave Commander, which was carrying the first cargo of humanitarian food aid for Africa from Ukraine since the Russian invasion, data from Refinitiv Eikon showed.
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