all the most current events that take place in the world together with our guests of course, gennady gatilovnent representative of the russian federation to the un office and other international organizations in geneva, gennady mikhailovich, is in touch with us now. hello. do you hear me? hello? yes, we hear, otherwise mikhailovich has been talking on our air for weeks, probably for weeks, including about the situation at the zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is subjected to constant and increasingly intensifying shelling from ukraine by the armed forces of ukraine please tell me whether this topic is being discussed in geneva, taking into account the fact that a lot of hopes are still placed on the participation of international institutions in resolving this issue. yes, but i want to start with the fact that there is a relative calm in international organizations in geneva now due to the vacation period, but this does not mean that attention is not paid to this topic, of course, attention is also paid to the media space and we attract to this topic of great attention in our e, working

gennady gatilov told the financial times: "i do not see any possibility for diplomatic contacts".s says more than 9,000 military personnel there have been killed since russia invaded. it's extremely rare for ukrainian officials to give casualty figures and the toll on both sides is much disputed. ukrainians are looking ahead to wednesday, which is the country's independence day and will be six months since russia invaded. here's hugo bachega in kyiv. 1400b azov pressermight be line from un security council meeting at 1430. president zelensky said russia could be preparing something disgusting to mark independence day on wednesday. 31 years of ukraine independence. some citizens are taking security measures, the situation in the east which is been under constant russian bombardment and a curfew is in place until thursday and here, there is a ban on public gatherings until thursday and the curfew is not been extended but the city is on high alert. we don't know the numbers, but we know that russia has suffered a high number of casualties since its troops invaded in february. so the