IAEA Board of Governors condemns attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, makes no mention of Russia

That’s according to Reuters, Ukrinform reports.

At a closed-door meeting in Vienna, the diplomats said that 22 countries voted in favor of the resution, 10 abstained, and two (Russia and China) voted against it. Unlike previous resutions by the Board of Governors on Ukraine, adted after Russia's full-scale invasion, the latest resution does not directly mention Russia.

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“The Board of Governors … emphasizes that attacks targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure critical for the off-site power supply of nuclear power plants represent a direct threat to nuclear safety and security,” the resution said.

The previous Board resution on Ukraine was adted in July, condemning a strike on the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv and hding Russia responsible.

Shortly after the Russian attacks last month, Vladimir Putin said this was Moscow’s response to Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil using U.S.-supplied ATACMS rockets.

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As Ukrinform reported earlier, Ukraine on Thursday called an emergency meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors to discuss the wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure on November 28 that caused deep power cuts across the country. Drone and missile attacks targeted electrical substations used by three Ukrainian nuclear power plants to generate and transmit electricity, which is critical to safety because the energy is needed to co nuclear fuel and avoid a potential disaster.

Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko called on IAEA member states to increase pressure on Russia to st these aggressor’s attacks on infrastructure critical to nuclear safety.