Employees of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine are now working at “gunpoint” after Russian forces seized the facility, CNN reported Friday citing the operator of the plant.
Petro Kotin, the head of the state-owned nuclear power site in Energoatom, said in a Telegram message that Russian troops “entered the territory of the nuclear power plant, took control of the personnel and management of the nuclear power plant,” the news network reported.
“The station management works at invaders’ gunpoint,” Kotin said, according to CNN.
The development comes a day after a fire broke out at the facility following an attack by Russian forces.
Russia has falsely blamed Ukraine for the attack on the facility and says it is operating normally.
UN officials say there have been no changes in radiation amid the fighting, including the International Atomic Energy Agency’s director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi. Only one reactor is currently working at around 60 percent capacity, according to the report.
Russia also captured the Chernobyl nuclear plant last week.
