The key facts

  • IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reported the death of a Zaporizhzhia thermal power plant employee in a drone strike
  • On November 3, two people were killed in an attack on a car, including a ZNPP employee
  • According to the ZNPP director, about 50 plant employees have been injured since the escalation

Death of a thermal power plant employee

IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi reported that an employee of the Zaporizhzhia thermal power plant was killed in a drone strike. The statement was published on the agency's page on the social network X, as reported by Gazeta.Ru. Grossi condemned attacks on nuclear power plant workers, calling such strikes a violation of nuclear safety principles.

A series of incidents involving personnel

In the same statement, Grossi noted that this happened a few days after the death of another employee of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, who, according to available information, was also the victim of a UAV strike. On November 3, in the Zaporizhzhia region, as a result of a drone attack on a car, two people were killed, including an employee of the ZNPP. Earlier, ZNPP director Yuriy Chernichuk reported, that since the escalation, about 50 plant employees had received injuries of varying severity from the attacks. According to the head of Rosatom, after one of the attacks, Ukrainian military prevented medics from reaching the injured for six hours .

What is known and what remains unclear

The publications do not name the deceased, the circumstances of the strike, or the side responsible for the attack: the information about the death is cited with reference to Grossi's statement, while data on previous casualties comes from representatives of the ZNPP and Rosatom. No assessment of these claims by independent parties is provided in the available materials.