Collaborator’s car explosion in occupied Enerhodar: what is known so far

On September 4, a car of Andrii Korotkyi, an employee of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant security department, exploded in occupied Enerhodar, Zaporizhzhia region. According to the Russian Investigative Committee, an improvised explosive device was placed under the car parked near a house in Enerhodar. It went off when Korotkyi got into the car. The man died from his injuries.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine (Ukrainian abbreviation: HUR) indirectly acknowledged its involvement in the incident. In a post on Telegram, the HUR wrote that “Korotkyi is a collaborator involved in the organisation and execution of war crimes and repression of Ukrainians under occupation. After the seizure of ZNPP, he voluntarily cooperated with the Russian invaders, gave the Russians lists of the plant employees with their personal data, pointing to citizens with a pro-Ukrainian position. He took part in repressions of the nuclear power plant staff and war crimes against civilians of the temporarily occupied Enerhodar.”

The HUR also published a short video of allegedly Korotkyi’s car at the time of the explosion.

Russian media reported that Korotkyi was not only an employee of the nuclear power plant, but also the “chairman of the council of deputies” of Enerhodar after its occupation, and after quitting this position, he was a “member of the council”. In early September, an assassination attempt was allegedly made on the former “mayor” of the occupied city, another plant employee, Andriy Shevchyk.

The “governor” of the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, Yevhen Balytskyi, called on in a Telegram post to “everyone to remain vigilant, always be on the alert, inspect your cars, monitor the situation”, because “until the enemy is completely destroyed, … everyone can become the target of their Nazi hatred”.

As reported earlier, on the morning of October 2, a former judge of the Chernihiv District Court of the Zaporizhzhia region, Vitaliy Lomeiko, died in a car explosion in occupied Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia region. After the occupation of Berdiansk in 2022, Lomeiko sided with the Russian occupation authorities.