What was reported about the Zaporizhzhia plant on 28 April 2026?
A retrospective on a claim by Russia-installed officials that a worker at the occupied nuclear plant had died in a Ukrainian attack.
What was being said about the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on 28 April 2026? Reports dated 27 April, the day before, carried a claim from Russia-installed officials at the plant: a worker had been killed in a Ukrainian attack.
The claim came from the officials Russia had installed at the site, and it was attributed to them as reported at the time. The reports did not add further details of the incident.
The plant has been at the centre of a nuclear safety crisis since the start of the 2022 Russian invasion. Russian forces attacked and occupied it during the Battle of Enerhodar on 4 March 2022. It is the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, and Ukraine has described Russia's actions there as an act of nuclear terrorism.
By late April 2026 the plant remained under Russian occupation, and the report of a worker's death fed into the continuing crisis around the site.
