Thanks for joining uspublished at 18:50 British Summer Time 8 August 2022
We're now wrapping up our coverage of the war in Ukraine for the day, here's a round-up of today's main headlines:
- At the heart of the conflict right now is Zaporizhzhia's nuclear power plant - which is the largest in Europe. Both Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for shelling the plant over the weekend
- UN chief Antonio Guterres said any attack on a nuclear plant is "suicidal" and inspectors must be granted access to the site
- The head of Ukraine's state nuclear power company told the BBC Russian troops are using the nuclear plant as a military base and shield against Ukrainian forces
- Meanwhile, Ukraine's embassy in Beirut said the buyer of the first grain ship to leave Ukraine - following a deal brokered by Turkey and the UN - has refused to accept the delivery because of delays to the shipment
- Top Ukrainian adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, told the BBC there are no channels of peace negotiations in sight between Kyiv and Moscow and, he adds, only the exchange of bodies and prisoners of war are being discussed
- A new report by security think tank, the Royal United Services Institute, says almost all of Moscow's modern military systems rely on Western-made microelectronics and Russia's military could be unable to operate high-tech weapons and communications systems if the West tightened export controls
Thank you for joining us. Today's writers were Jack Burgess, Catherine Evans, Anna Boyd, Krystyna Gajda, Malu Cursino, James Harness and Sam Hancock. And our editors were James Clarke, Alexandra Fouché, Jeremy Gahagan and Chris Giles.