VIENNA, April 12. /TASS/. The majority of delegations present at the extraordinary meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Board of Governors realize that Ukraine is responsible for shelling attacks on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Russian Permanent Envoy to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov said.
"According to my impressions, I, of course, cannot give exact statistics, the vast majority of those who participated in today’s meeting understand that the shelling was carried out by Ukrainians. Although the latter predictably insist that this is a ‘Russian false flag operation’ and, as always, for propaganda purposes, they are turning the arrows from themselves to us. But it sounded very unconvincing from them," he told Russian reporters after the meeting.
"Naturally, we named Ukraine as the guilty party, since we know this 100%, and so did our Syrian friends, Permanent Representative of Syria. The rest, in conditions where there is no official conclusion about the guilt of the Ukrainians from the IAEA, avoided this point. But many countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America strongly called for these attacks to be stopped immediately. What, in fact, we wanted to see and hear," Ulyanov continued.
The Russian diplomat added that during the meeting, many countries spoke against ZNPP shelling, including "many of those who are generally more inclined to support Ukraine."
Over the past few days, Ukrainian troops attacked the NPP with drones almost on a daily basis. In that regard, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Raphael Grossi will address the UN Security Council meeting on April 15.