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View of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
Russia is accused by the Ukrainian government of kidnapping the head of the country’s main European nuclear power plant. O The engineer Ihor Murashov was arrested on the way to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
by Russian troops on Friday (30th) and no further information about him has been heard since.
At the moment the area is around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
in Enerhodar is occupied by Russian military troops who have seized parts of southeastern Ukraine. The UN nuclear agency told international media that the Kremlin had reported that Murashov had been “detained for questioning.”
Russian troops stopped them Director General of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant
, in Ukraine. Ihor Murashov was arrested at 16:00 (13:00 GMT) on Friday on the way from Europe’s largest nuclear facility to the city of Enerhodar. said Petro Kotin, head of the stateowned Energoatom
in a statement on Saturday.
“He was pulled from the car and driven blindfolded in an unknown direction. His arrest by [Rússia] endangers the security of Ukraine and Europe’s largest nuclear power plant,” Kotin told Portal.
The director added that “not a single word” has been heard about Murashov’s fate. The Russian government has not commented publicly on the arrest. Kotin said prourou the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi,
“to take all possible emergency measures to urgently release Murashov”.
The power plant Zaporizhia
It is a strategic point of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and right now Moscow and Kyiv are accusing each other of bombing the facility, seriously increasing the risk of a nuclear catastrophe.
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