India, May 17 -- The head of Russia's state nuclear corporation has accused the International Atomic Energy Agency of failing to respond forcefully to what Moscow describes as escalating Ukrainian attacks near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, sharpening an increasingly volatile dispute over nuclear security, wartime accountability, and the credibility of international oversight institutions.

Alexey Likhachev, the director general of Rosatom, said Saturday that the IAEA Secretariat was "effectively ignoring" daily Ukrainian military attacks on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, known as ZNPP, as well as civilian deaths in Russian-controlled territories surrounding the facility. The remarks, distributed by Russian state media, mark...