MADRID, 18 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ukrainian nuclear company Energoatom has denounced on Tuesday the alleged kidnapping of two workers from the Zaporizhia plant that would have been carried out by Russia the day before.
According to the company, on October 17, “Russian nuclear terrorists” detained the head of the plant’s technology service, Oleg Kostyukov, and the deputy director general of the plant, Oleg Osheka. The brief statement published on Telegram underlines that they do not know both the status and the whereabouts of these two people.
In that same text, the company calls on the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, as well as the entire international community to intensify “all efforts” to achieve the release of these two people so they can return. to their jobs.
This is not the first time that Ukraine has denounced Russia for these alleged practices. In this last month, the deputy general director of the nuclear power plant, Valeri Martiniuk, and the general director, Igor Murashov, who was released on October 3, a few days after his arrest, were also kidnapped.
The news comes out shortly after Grossi himself highlighted that Russia and Ukraine have expressed their intention to establish a security zone around the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, one of the main scenarios in which this war has been fought since the Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of what he has dubbed a “special operation.”
The Zaporizhia plant, the largest nuclear plant in Europe, has been under Russian control since March 4. Both sides accuse each other of launching attacks on the surroundings and putting the security of the region at risk. At the end of August, a special IAEA mission began to learn about the state of the facilities and their workers.