The chief engineer at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was killed by a Ukrainian drone near the station, the head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Wednesday.
Alexei Likhachev said in a statement that a Ukrainian drone had struck a service car between the plant's site and the town of Enerhodar, killing the engineer, Alexander Yakovlev, and the driver.
Russian forces seized the plant in southeastern Ukraine in the first weeks of the full-scale invasion. Each side has since regularly accused the other of military actions that endanger nuclear safety.
The city of Enerhodar, where most of the nuclear station's staff live, has been a frequent target of attacks.
Likhachev said the failure of Western countries to react to attacks on the plant "encourages escalation of terrorist acts by the Ukrainian government," adding that attacks on the area had killed 13 people and injured 48 over the past two and a half months.
