Foreign Ministry statement on the Kiev regime’s attack on IAEA staff

Foreign Ministry statement on the Kiev regime’s attack on IAEA staff:

“During a planned rotation of IAEA Secretariat staff at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on December 10, the armed forces of Ukraine carried out a series of strikes on the official vehicle used for the rotation of Agency personnel.

The vehicle carrying IAEA staff was attacked at around 3 pm within the Ukrainian controlled territory.

At 4.37 pm, Ukraine attacked a Russian convoy that was moving from Kamenskoye after delivering the IAEA Secretariat team to the frontline.

We share the outrage of the IAEA management over these provocative and irresponsible actions by the Kiev regime, which not only continues to commit crimes, endangering and attacking Russian nuclear facilities, but has now decided to put at risk the lives of international personnel and the Russian servicemen responsible for the rotation.

That attack, which could have claimed lives, is evidence of the Ukrainian authorities’ complete disregard for the universal norms of humanitarian law and the agreements reached, as well as their undisguised contempt for the immunity of international staff.

We strongly condemn these actions of the Kiev regime, which believes in its impunity. It is shocking that Vladimir Zelensky and his patrons are committing increasingly more horrible crimes, regardless of the consequences or international attitude, and actually defying the notion and principles of nuclear safety and security, which they are ready to sacrifice to their ambitious and malicious and destructive policies.

We would like to point out that this latest action of Kiev is an obvious provocation staged ahead of the meeting of the IAEA Board of Governors, which will convene on December 12 at Kiev’s initiative. We call on the United States, Great Britain and their allies to withdraw any support from Zelensky’s regime and to take measures to bring to account the culprits and those responsible for organising and carrying out that provocation.”

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