Abduction of people by the occupiers in Enerhodar has reached the scale of a catastrophe - Mayor

DENYS KARLOVSKYI - WEDNESDAY, 22 JUNE 2022, 19:38

​​The Russian occupiers continue to abduct people en masse in Enerhodar, including employees of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP).

Source: Telegram channel of the Energoatom National Nuclear Power Generation Company with Mayor Orlov's comment

Quote from Orlov: "People are being abducted en masse: the whereabouts of some of them are unknown. The rest are in very difficult conditions: they are being tortured and bullied both physically and morally."

Details: The mayor added that the whereabouts of these people and their immediate exchange should be raised at the highest level.

Background: 

• According to Orlov, the Russians are throwing the abducted ZNPP employees into the basements and holding them for weeks. In addition, the city has almost no signal for local mobile communications and almost no internet, so people cannot pay for products [with non-cash payments via terminals in stores].
• In late May, unknown individuals blew up the entrance to the building where the collaborator Andrii Shevchyk, who heads Enerhodar's occupation administration, lives.
• According to Orlov, the Russians have been holding hostage his deputy, Ivan Samoidyuk, who has health problems, for several months.
• The invaders forcibly send men in the captured city of Enerhodar to the military registration and enlistment offices and the "people's militia."
• Since the beginning of the occupation of Enerhodar, residents have repeatedly rallied against the Russian occupation, but the occupiers have dispersed peaceful demonstrations, sometimes with heavy weapons.