Director normal of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant detained by Russian patrol

KYIV (Reuters) -The director normal of Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant was detained by a Russian patrol, Energoatom, the state-owned firm in command of the plant, mentioned on Saturday.

Ihor Murashov was detained on his method from Europe’s largest nuclear plant to the city of Enerhodar round 4 p.m. (1300 GMT) on Friday, firm chief Petro Kotin mentioned in an announcement.

“He was taken out of the automotive, and together with his eyes blindfolded he was pushed in an unknown path,” Kotin wrote on the Telegram messaging app, including there was no fast phrase on Murashov’s destiny.

The Zaporizhzhia plant has been a focus of Russia’s seven-month invasion of Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv accuse one another of shelling the ability, risking a nuclear catastrophe.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has referred to as for space across the plant, which is staffed by Ukrainians, to be demilitarized.

Murashov “bears principal and unique duty for the nuclear and radiation security” of the plant and his detention “jeopardizes the protection of operation of Ukraine and Europe’s largest nuclear energy plant”, Kotin mentioned.

He referred to as on Russian forces to “cease instantly the acts of nuclear terrorism in the direction of the administration and personnel” of the plant and launch Murashov.