ENERHODAR, Aug. 23 -- The shift bus to Europe's largest nuclear power station leaves early, and by six in the morning on August 18 a group of workers was already waiting at the stop. A drone came down among them. One plant employee was killed, and five days later nobody has published his name.

What has been published, repeatedly, is a number, and the number keeps moving. The International Atomic Energy Agency's first account that day said the explosion caused 16 casualties among staff and subcontractors, including one death and three serious injuries, a figure the Kyiv Independent carried as one killed and 15 injured. Russian officials and the plant's Moscow-appointed management put the wounded at 17, Al Jazeera reported the same evening...