Killed security chief at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was ‘collaborator’, Kyiv says

Published October 5, 2024

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An employee at a Russian-controlled nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been killed in a car bomb attack.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, said the employee, Andrei Korotkiy, had died after a bomb planted under his car went off near his house in the city of Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhia plant is located.

 

Korotkiy worked in the plant’s security department, the Committee said. A criminal case has been opened into his death.

Ukrainian military intelligence published a video of his car exploding and in a statement branded Korotkiy a “war criminal” and collaborator, accusing him of repressing Ukrainians and of handing Russia a list of the plant’s employees and then pointing out people with pro-Ukrainian views.

“The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine‘s Ministry of Defence reminds people that every war criminal will be fairly punished,” the Ukrainian agency said.

Russian forces seized the Zaporizhzhia plant, Europe’s largest with six reactors, soon after they entered Ukraine in February 2022. The plant is not currently operating.

The plant’s authorities condemned Ukrainian authorities for orchestrating the murder.

“This is a horrific, inhumane act,” said plant director Yuri Chernichuk, vowing punishment for the attackers.

 

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SOURCE: www.independent.co.uk

RELATED: Ukraine says it killed Zaporizhzhia NPP security chief, branding him a ‘collaborator’

Published October 5, 2024

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, located in southern Ukraine, is the largest in Europe and prior to the 2022 Russian invasion, supplied Ukraine with around 30% of its electricity. It was seized by Russian forced in the early weeks of the war.

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency (GUR) has claimed responsibility for the killing of the head of security at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, branding him a “war criminal” and a “collaborator” with Russia.

The GUR posted a video on its Telegram channel showing a SUV exploding and hours later, the Russian Investigative Committee confirmed that Andrei Korotkiy was killed in Enerhodar, where the nuclear plant is located.

The GUR claimed that Korotkiy, a Ukrainian national, “voluntarily collaborated” with Moscow after it seized control of the nuclear facility in the early weeks of the war.

The agency alleged he had passed on personal data of the facility’s workers to Russian forces, highlighting those with a “pro-Ukrainian position”, as well as organising events which supported the “occupation”.

 

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SOURCE: www.euronews.com

 

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