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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is analyzing this Friday the situation created in Ukraine by the Russian attacks on the country's energy infrastructure, in a meeting convened without the support of the United States and when a truce of these attacks agreed between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin has just begun.
The closed-door meeting of the Board of Governors has been requested by the Netherlands at the request of Ukraine, the convocation has been supported by twelve of the 35 members of that executive body of the IAEA, but not by the United States, China, India or, of course, Russia.
The Board "will discuss the situation, the challenge and the threat that Russia poses to nuclear safety and security, by systematically and deliberately destroying Ukrainian energy infrastructure, in particular Ukrainian substations," Ukrainian Ambassador to the IAEA Yuriy Vitrenko told the media before the meeting.
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Regarding the fact that the US did not sponsor the convening of the meeting, the Ukrainian diplomat said that Ukraine has received solidarity from twelve other countries of the Board and recalled that the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has thanked Trump's efforts to "stop Russia's energy terrorism." Although a resolution is not expected to be approved today, the Ukrainian representative said he expects "very strong and specific signals of support and solidarity with Ukraine", and expressed confidence that this meeting will serve to shed light "on the threat to nuclear safety and security in Europe and around the world". The European Union's intervention before the Board, which EFE had access to, urged Russia to "immediately cease all its military operations, in particular those targeting energy and other critical infrastructure in Ukraine." Furthermore, the Europeans recalled, as the IAEA has been doing since the Russian invasion began almost four years ago, the danger of attacking the substations that supply the electricity that keeps the safety systems of nuclear power plants operational. The attacks have repeatedly left the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the Zaporizhzhia plant, occupied by Russia since almost the beginning of the war, without electricity. Zelensky announced today that his country is joining the week-long truce in attacks on energy infrastructure that Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on the eve to his American counterpart, Donald Trump, at a time when temperatures are expected to drop below minus 25 degrees in some parts of Ukraine. Today's meeting should have been held ten days ago, but it has been delayed until it took place when this ceasefire has already been announced.
