Zaporizhzhia, Energoatom accusation in Moscow: “Kidnapped workers”

Energoatom accuses the Russian forces occupying the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine of kidnapping and mistreating its staff. About 200 people were allegedly taken and the Ukrainian operator does not know where some of them are, Energoatom chairman Petro Kotin told German publishing group Funke, adding that there have been cases where workers have been tortured and killed. It was very difficult for Energoatom personnel to continue working at the plant, said Kotin, according to whom about 11,000 people worked on the site before the war, reduced to about a thousand. The IAEA has called the situation in Zaporizhzhia “unsustainable”.