The IAEA Board of Governors adopted a resolution recognizing the direct nuclear safety and security implications of Russia's systematic attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

The IAEA Board of Governors has adopted a resolution recognizing the direct nuclear safety and security implications of Russia's systematic attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

Targeting electrical substations that feed nuclear sites is a deliberate attempt to create blackout conditions and raise the risk of an incident.

Russia's occupation of Zaporizhzhia NPP and constant strikes against the power grid creates unacceptable risks.

Representatives of Russia's state energy sector, including Rosatom, were involved in planning attacks on substations critical to the external power supply schemes of Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

Resolution was seventh on Ukraine since Russia invaded, adopted in closed session with 20 countries backing it

The resolution warns that strikes on Ukraine's energy system supplying nuclear power plants, including the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, pose a direct threat to nuclear safety and security.

Resolution submitted by Canada and the Netherlands passed with 20 votes in favor, four against (China, Russia, Niger, United States), and 10 abstentions

Washington deemed it 'an unnecessary resolution that does not help achieve peace between Ukraine and Russia'

The resolution is the seventh on Ukraine since Russia's invasion and condemns attacks on energy infrastructure aimed at the external power supply of nuclear power plants, including the Zaporizhzhia NPP, as a direct threat to nuclear safety and security.