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Workers at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine say they are being “tortured” in an effort to keep them silent ahead of an imminent inspection by a United Nations watchdog group.
The allegations were made by Ukraine’s nuclear power company Energoatom on Saturday, amid its warning over the high potential for a hydrogen or radioactive leak, as shelling continued near the plant.
Europe’s largest nuclear power plant has been a flashpoint in the war as both sides in the conflict trade accusations of targeting the plant with increased shelling in a situation that could become a nuclear crisis for the immediate area, as well as for the entire European continent.
The power station was temporarily knocked offline Thursday before resuming operations Friday.
Dominance of the plant, which is located in southeastern Ukraine, has been key to Russian forces as they seek to establish “full control” in the surrounding Donbas region.
Energoatom on Saturday said damage to the facility’s infrastructure has already increased “risks of hydrogen leakage and [the] sputtering of radioactive substances.
