Russian occupational authorities in Enerhodar are interrogating ZNPP employees who refuse to cooperate, threatening their family members while preventing them from working.

Russians are pressuring employees at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant who have refused to cooperate with them, yet they have not abandoned the city of Enerhodar. Current plant employees are not allowed to work but are instead summoned for interrogations, with threats directed against their family members.

Workers from Ukraine's atomic energy operator Energoatom have been barred from the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Russia had been imposing citizenship on the plant's employees and forcing them to sign contracts with Russian-installed operator Rosatom

The latest deadline for accepting Russian citizenship and contracts was January 1, 2024

Before the war, there were 11,500 staff at the plant. At present 4,500 people are employed by the Russian operator

Russian forces are pressuring ZNPP employees who refused to work for them, summoning them for interrogation and threatening their family members.

The occupiers cannot recruit workers for the station due to a shortage of specialists in the Russian Federation.

The plant is currently not generating electricity and is being used as a blackmail tool by occupiers.