On 12 December, the IAEA Board of Governors, which includes representatives of 35 states, supported a resolution condemning the attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. The resolution did not mention Russia as an aggressor, Reuters reports.
Ukraine has called an emergency meeting of the Council to discuss a series of attacks carried out by Russia, which led to severe power outages across the country.
Diplomats at the closed-door meeting in Vienna said that 22 countries voted in favour of the resolution, 10 abstained, and two - Russia and China - voted against. However, unlike previous Council resolutions on Ukraine after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, the current document did not name Russia as the culprit behind the shelling.
‘The Board of Governors... emphasises that attacks targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure, which is crucial for the external energy supply of nuclear power plants, pose a direct threat to nuclear safety,’ the resolution says.