...This report examines the occupying forces’ physical and administrative takeover of Enerhodar and the ZNPP, the systematic torture and persecution of civilians, including plant personnel, and the deep integration of Russia’s state nuclear corporation, the Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation...into the governance of occupied Enerhodar and the crimes themselves. Based on months of investigative research, the report reveals how Rosatom’s corporate, administrative, and financial structures have been weaponized in the service of military control and led to the suppression of resistance, the commission of serious crimes, and the compromising of nuclear safety and security. The findings underscore the urgent need for coordinated international action to halt ongoing violations, protect nuclear safety and security, and hold perpetrators accountable...

Russian forces established at least seven detention sites in Enerhodar and the surrounding area, including two smaller-scale facilities. Truth Hounds has documented how the Russian occupation unlawfully detained at least 226 Enerhodar residents and ZNPP employees, most of them in severely overcrowded facilities where detainees were subjected to physical and psychological torture to extract information, force confessions, punish dissent, intimidate, and coerce collaboration. Russian forces deprived detainees of food, water, and medical care, contrary to the provisions of international law. Torture, including beatings, electrocution, sexual violence, mock executions, and threats to family members of detainees, became routine...

The conduct of Russian forces and occupying authorities in Enerhodar and at the ZNPP amounts to serious breaches of international humanitarian law...as war crimes and to crimes against humanity...Rosatom’s active role in coercive practices may give rise to state responsibility and corporate liability under international law. Furthermore, the integration of a state-owned corporation into the machinery of occupation and repression is a troubling and dangerous reality that warrants greater international action to hold corporate actors to account for their role in the commission of these crimes.

The risks of nuclear disaster at the ZNPP remain real and demonstrate Russia’s fundamental disregard for well-established international norms on nuclear safety and security...