Ukraine accuses Russia of detaining director of Zaporizhia nuclear plant
The state energy operator of Ukraine, Energoatom, has accused the Russian Army of arresting the director of the nuclear plant in the Zaporizhia region, Ihor Murashov, who is currently missing.
The director of Energoatom, Petro Kotin, has made it known on his Facebook page that Murashov was intercepted on Friday around 4:00 p.m. local time by a Russian Army patrol while he was on his way to the plant in his private vehicle. “The car was intercepted, (Murashov) was forcibly detained, blindfolded and currently, there is no information about his whereabouts or his fate,” he explained.
Murashov, Kotin assures, “is a person who has a license to work and has primary and exclusive responsibility for the nuclear and radiological safety of the Zaporizhia NPP.” “His arrest,” he stresses, “endangers the operation of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.”