Second death in a few days: a Zaporizhzhia NPP worker killed by a drone strike

As a result of a drone attack, an employee of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant was killed. This is already the second case of a nuclear facility worker's death in recent days.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on November 9, drone strikes claimed the lives of two more power engineers in this area.

Rossi calls for an immediate halt to the attacks.

In particular, during the shelling, a worker at Zaporizhzhia Thermal Power Plant, which is located near the NPP, was killed.

A few days before this tragedy, IAEA received data about the death of another Zaporizhzhia NPP employee. The man also fell victim to a drone attack.

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi strongly condemned the deadly strikes on specialists. He emphasized that such attacks are unacceptable and violate fundamental nuclear safety principles.

All such attacks on nuclear power plant workers must stop immediately. All plant personnel must be able to perform their important work without excessive stress or fear.

— added Grossi.

The threat to Zaporizhzhia NPP remains critical: on the night of 8, the facility again faced a blackout due to loss of external power, which has become the 16-th such incident since the beginning of the year.

As a reminder, 6, as a result of a Russian strike on the emergency team of DTEK in the front-line area, a 50-year-old energy worker Mykola Bohatyriov died.

Also in the morning of 9, the occupiers carried out a targeted FPV drone strike on a car carrying Ukrenergo employees in Sumy. Three energy workers were injured.