United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres believes that “humanity is one ill-conceived step that could lead to nuclear annihilation” as it faces a threat “unprecedented since the Cold War,” according to Agence France-Presse ( AFP). ) AFP).

At the beginning of the conference of the signatories of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, he noted that “we are extremely lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy, and it does not protect against geopolitical tensions that escalate to a nuclear conflict.”

Guterres’ statement comes as Russian forces continue their special military operation in Ukraine, which has been ongoing since February 24, as operations are concentrated in the Ukrainian Donbas, which includes the separatist areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, in contrast to Ukraine’s Western armament.

On July 20, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that “the geographical objectives of the Russian special military operation have changed and are no longer limited to Donetsk and Lugansk”, stressing that “if the West continues to supply Kyiv with long-range weapons, then the special operations of the Russian military have changed and they are already are not limited to Donetsk and Lugansk.

On the other hand, Taiwan and China are experiencing tensions over the possibility of a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to an island that China considers part of, as the Chinese Foreign Ministry warned that the Chinese army would not stand by if the visit took place.