Russian soldiers who control a giant nuclear power plant in Ukraine are detaining workers and subjecting them to brutal interrogations in a search for possible saboteurs, Ukrainian officials say.
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant — Europe’s largest — lies in southern Ukraine in the city of Enerhodar.
Russian forces inside the plant are stepping up measures to find anyone they think might pose a threat, according to local and company officials.
“People are being abducted en masse,” Enerhodar’s exiled mayor, Dmytro Orlov, said on Wednesday. “The whereabouts of some of them are unknown. The rest are in very difficult conditions: They are being tortured and physically and morally abused.”
Mr. Orlov’s statements could not be independently confirmed. But officials from Energoatom, the state company that oversees the complex, have offered similar accounts. Read more
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