AFP, Europa Press, Reuters and Sputnik
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, October 5, 2024, p. 18
kyiv. A person in charge of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, in southern Ukraine, occupied by Russia, died yesterday in a car bomb attack, both countries reported yesterday.
According to the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GUR), the explosion killed Andrii Korotki responsible for security of the Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant, the largest in Europe.
kyiv, which does not claim responsibility for the attack, accuses Korotki of being a collaborator of the Russian occupation forces.
It is the just revenge that awaits every war criminalindicated the GUR in a message on Telegram, in which he accuses him of provide the Russians with lists of station employees with their personal data, singling out any citizen who exhibited pro-Ukrainian positions; as well as being the executor of a repressive policy against station staffrepresentative of war crimes against civilians in the city of Energodar.
The plant’s Russian director of operations, Yuri Chernichuk, condemned the events as a horrible and inhuman act of terrorism. Russia’s Investigative Committee reported that it has begun a large-scale operation to find those responsible.
The Kremlin accused Ukrainian authorities yesterday of playing with fire, a day after the Russian military said it intercepted a Ukrainian drone near the Kursk nuclear power plant, and some media outlets reported a fire miles from the site. The day before, the governor of the Kursk province, Alexei Smirnov, indicated that near the city of Kurchatov, where the plant is located, electronic warfare means suppressed a Ukrainian drone and, as a result of his fall, explosions occurred in a unit not linked to atomic operations.
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