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Al Jazeera Staff

Russian occupiers rule Ukraine’s nuclear plant through force, fear: Sources

Russia's President Vladimir Putin is seen on a screen as an Enerhodar resident walks past an apartment block [File: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters]

On the eighth day of Russia’s war in Ukraine, March 3, 2022, for the first time in history, an operating nuclear station was taken over militarily.

“We couldn’t believe it,” an engineer who worked at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant told Al Jazeera.

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