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Russia has kidnapped another employee of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant this week, according to Energoatam, Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company.
It’s just the latest hostile action Moscow has reportedly taken in its efforts to control the nuclear power plant, which was seized early on in the war in Ukraine. While Russia controls the plant, Ukrainian operators continue to keep the plant going, sometimes under threat of violence.
This time, the Russians reportedly kidnapped the plant’s deputy director general for human resources, Valery Martyniuk. According to Energoatam, Moscow likely wants to devise ways to transition the employees of the plant to officially work for Russia’s nuclear power supplier, Rosatom, and may be torturing the official.