MOSCOW, April 27 (Reuters) – An employee of the Russian-controlled Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Ukraine was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike, the management of the Russian Zaporozhye nuclear power plant said in a Telegram post on Monday.
“Today, a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone attacked the transport sector of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, killing a driver,” the post said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said its on-site team will investigate the incident and continue to monitor developments.
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IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi was quoted as saying in a post on social media platform X that attacks on or near nuclear power plants “could endanger nuclear security and must not occur”.
(Reporting by Reuters, writing by Anastasia Teterevleva, additional reporting by Thomas Seythal in Berlin, editing by Vladimir Soldatkin and Friederike Heine)
