Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of detaining two employees of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is occupied by Moscow, after “severely beating them”, reports AFP.

On Thursday, “Russian soldiers broke into the premises of the social programs department of the plant and in the presence of other employees brutally beat the head of the department Oleksiy Trubenkov and his deputy Yuriy Androsov”, – complained the Ukrainian operator. nuclear field of NAEK “Energoatom” in a press release.

“After this brutal fight,” the Russians “took them out (of the building) and took them in an unknown direction,” Energoatom also condemned.

The head of the Zaporizhzhya station’s nuclear safety department, Kostiantyn Beiner, was also, according to Energoatom NAEC, “thrown underground”, but is not in the custody of the Russian military.

The Ukrainian NPP accused the Moscow soldiers, who occupied the station since the beginning of March, that they “went wild and turned into real policemen and jailers”, “increased repression” against employees.

This is not the first incident

This is not the first time Kyiv has accused Moscow of attacking Ukrainian personnel of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant. At the end of September, its director was arrested by Russian troops and released a few days later.

For months, Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of bombing the Zaporizhzhia plant near the front line, raising fears of a major nuclear accident.

According to the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi, Russia has deployed 500 Russian troops in the vicinity of the plant.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the international community have repeatedly called for the demilitarization of the site, but so far without success. (Source Agerpres)