The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors passed a resolution on Thursday condemning attacks, but failing to mention Russia as the culprit, APA reports quoting Reuters.
Ukraine called Thursday's emergency International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board meeting to discuss a wave of attacks on Nov. 28 that Russia unleashed on its energy infrastructure, triggering deep power cuts across the country.
The drone and missile attacks hit electricity sub-stations used by three of Ukraine's nuclear power plants to receive and transmit off-site power, which is critical to their safety since that power is necessary to cool their nuclear fuel and avoid a potentially catastrophic nuclear meltdown.
Diplomats at the closed-door meeting in Vienna said 22 countries voted in favour of the resolution with 10 abstaining and two, Russia and China, voting against. Unlike previous Board resolutions on Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, however, it failed to mention Russia by name.
"The Board of Governors ... emphasises 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 resolution said.
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