The detained chief of Ukraine's Russian-held nuclear power plant has been released, the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Monday.
Murashov was detained by a"Russian patrol" on Friday at around 4:00 p.m. local time on his way from the plant to the city of Energodar, the head of Ukraine's nuclear agency Energoatom, Petro Kotin, said in a statement.
He said Murashov's vehicle was stopped, he was taken out of the car and"with his eyes blindfolded, he was driven in an unknown direction." Ukraine's foreign ministry said in a statement it"condemns in the strongest terms the illegal detention." Murashov"bears the main and exclusive responsibility for the nuclear and radiation safety" of the Zaporizhzhia plant, according to Kotin.The nuclear plant is located in Russian-held territory of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, which Russia on Friday annexed together with three other territories in Ukraine: Donetsk, Lugansk and Kherson.
Shelling around the plant has spurred calls from Kyiv and its Western allies to demilitarize areas around nuclear facilities in Ukraine. Russia has indicated no willingness, however, to remove its forces from the Zaporizhzhia plant.
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