Drone Strike Kills Driver Near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Plant
The UN nuclear watchdog said it had been notified directly by plant officials that the strike — carried out during the morning hours — claimed the life of a driver at the facility's transport workshop, located in the immediate vicinity of the complex.
IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi responded with a stark warning, reiterating that "strikes on or near nuclear power plants can endanger nuclear safety and must not take place. The IAEA's team on the site will look into the incident and continue to monitor the situation."
A Plant at the Center of the Storm
Situated in southern Ukraine, the Zaporizhzhia facility — Europe's largest nuclear power plant — was seized by Russian forces in the early weeks of the war and has since become a recurring source of international anxiety over the risk of a catastrophic nuclear incident.
Monday's fatal strike marks the latest in a long series of dangerous episodes at the site, each one compounding concerns among global watchdogs and world leaders that the plant's proximity to active combat zones poses an unacceptable threat to nuclear security across the continent.
The IAEA's on-site team has been deployed to assess the full extent of the incident as monitoring efforts continue.
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