Key facts
- The plant's management said the drone struck a car and killed two people, one a female employee.
- The statement gave no indication where the incident occurred.
- Management said the employee was the third killed in the past two weeks and the 13th since April.
- Ukraine did not comment on the plant management's account.
- The IAEA said the week before November 3 that an employee at the plant had been killed, without details.
- Rosatom head said in July the plant's chief engineer was killed by a Ukrainian drone near the station.
The management at Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant said on November 3 that a Ukrainian drone had killed two people in a car, including a female employee at the station. The statement gave no indication where the incident occurred.
The statement said the employee was the third killed in the past two weeks and the 13th since April. "Attacks on civilian cars, killing of peaceful people – this is targeted terrorism. People must not become targets," the statement said. Ukraine did not comment.
Russian forces seized the plant, Europe's largest with six reactors, in the first weeks of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022. Each side has since regularly accused the other of military actions that compromise nuclear safety.
The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, said last week that an employee at the plant had been killed, but gave no details. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi has repeatedly called for military restraint around the facility, which is offline.
The head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said in July that the plant's chief engineer had been killed by a Ukrainian drone near the station.