Part of the collaborators and Rosatom employees have left ZNPP - Energodar mayor

The Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant temporarily occupied by Russian troops has been abandoned by Rosatom employees and some ZNPP workers who have gone to cooperate with the occupiers. This was announced by Energodar mayor Dmytro Orlov, Ukrainian Radio reports.

He added that there were about a hundred of Russians who left the ZNPP.

Orlov said that now there are about 5-6 thousand employees of the Zaporizhzhya NPP in the occupied city, who have been banned from leaving its territory.

They are in fact hostages of the Russian invaders. Representatives of the occupation "administration" do not allow them to leave Energodar," the mayor said.

He also said that in case of a nuclear threat, the city's residents would have nowhere to hide, as there are no shelters in the city.

There will be no shelters in case of a terrorist attack or explosion at the ZNPP controlled by Russian troops in Energodar," he stressed.

The mayor pointed out that according to his information, the Russians had brought explosives to the ZNPP a year ago.