"We Feel Like Hostages", Zaporizhzhia NPP Worker
Employees are searched by Russian soldiers every day and cannot carry phones, flash drives or memory cards to work.
A female employee who currently works at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant feels like hostage, she said to CNN.
Olga, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, said the working conditions for the employees at the plant are “very stressful,” and alleged that the Russian guards are often violent.
"God forbid you look at the guard the wrong way. You can be thrown into the basement", she told CNN in a phone interview on September 1st.
Employees are searched by Russian soldiers every day and cannot carry phones, flash drives or memory cards to work, according to Olga.
Speaking from her home in the Russian-occupied town of Enerhodar, she said she stayed home during the visit by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) because she said she was frightened by the “constant shelling".
Olga said she wasn’t convinced the IAEA mission would get the full picture, but hoped they would see “all the (Russian) soldiers, equipment, helicopters and the damage caused by their shelling”.
Despite the IAEA’s visit, Olga said her future is bleak.
"All of our desires, our freedom, needs and will have been squeezed out of us and we just wait," she said.
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