From patriot to pariah: The man caught in a propaganda war over a Ukrainian nuclear plant

Geneva – A former deputy spokesman at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant who helped inform the world that Russian troops had seized the strategic website, is now in exile, not in his job and, in response to a doc from his ex-employer, is suspected by Ukrainian intelligence of collaborating with Russia.

Andriy Tuz’s journey from Ukrainian patriot to pariah included an encounter with Russian intelligence and a June video — which he stated he was pressured to document after being tortured by Russian intelligence officers — the place he states earlier public feedback he’d made about Russia shelling the plant had been false. “Now I perceive that the knowledge was not true,” he stated within the video.