Ukraine blackmailing nuclear plant staff - Moscow | 31 Aug 2024 | Ukraine is exerting pressure on staff at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant in Russia, with threats to kill their family members if they refuse to cooperate with Kiev, senior Russian diplomat Rodion Miroshnik has claimed. "A lot of families have been separated" during the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, and Kiev is trying to take advantage of this, Miroshnik, who is tasked by the Moscow's Foreign Ministry with collecting evidence of Ukraine's war crimes, told RIA Novosti on Saturday. Kiev's security agencies are deliberately looking for relatives of staff members at the power plant who remain on Ukrainian territory, Miroshnik said. They then use threats against family members "to put pressure [on the nuclear plant employees] or provoke them to commit a terrorist act or to pass on information in the interests of Ukraine," he claimed.