The head of security at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has been killed in a car bomb attack, according to Ukrainian intelligence. Moscow speaks of a “terrorist attack”.
Enerhodar – Im Ukraine war The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant came into focus again and again. The energy plant came under attack several times, with Kiev and Moscow each blaming the other. The nuclear power plant has been under Russian control since March 2022. Now the head of security at the nuclear facility apparently died in a car bomb attack. The Ukrainian military intelligence service HUR shared a corresponding video on the X platform on Friday (October 4th).
Deadly attack: nuclear power plant security chief dies in car bomb
Andrei Korotkiy, the nuclear power plant’s “head of security,” was killed in a car bomb attack around 7 a.m. on Friday, one said notice of the Military Intelligence Service of Ukraine (HUR) on Telegram. Korotkiy is a “war criminal” and “voluntarily cooperated with the Russians” and gave them “lists of the plant’s employees with their personal data,” “which indicated citizens with a pro-Ukrainian stance,” the HUR continued. The nuclear power plant employee is also said to have helped organize pro-Russian events and to have been a member of Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party. The information could not be independently verified.
The management of the nuclear power plant, which is close to Moscow, confirmed loudly German press agency the death of the security chief and spoke of a “terrorist attack on behalf of Kiev” that “must be punished.” Russian investigators said the bomb was planted under his car at Korotkiy’s home in the city of Enerhodar. Shortly after the car started moving, the explosive exploded. An unverified video shared by HUR on platform X is intended to show the process. According to the news agency Reuters Russia initiated criminal proceedings.
Russian military strategy? Nuclear power plant as a “protective shield” against attacks
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, Ukraine has been murdering loudly Kyiv Post around 50 pro-Russian collaborators and occupation officials – probably either through the secret services or with the help of partisans. The latest incident also points to the continued unstable situation around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi has long been warning of a nuclear accident due to hostilities in Zaporizhzhia.
The US war experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) recently secured visual evidence of the storage and use of weapons by Russian forces on the site of the nuclear power plant, according to an ISW report.Report was called. According to ISW, the energy facility also serves Moscow as a training base for drone crews to protect Russian armed forces from Ukrainian counterattacks.
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