Russia claims Ukraine resumed work on creating a “dirty bomb”
Sergey Naryshkin, Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, has said that Ukraine might have resumed its work on creating what Russia claims to be a "dirty bomb". Source: TASS, citing Sergey Naryshkin Details: Naryshkin claimed that Russian Foreign Intelligence "obtained information which indicates that Kyiv might have resumed working on the creation of a dirty nuclear bomb".
He also alleged that the Ukrainian government wants to send a batch of irradiated fuel from the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant for reprocessing.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Director called on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the European Union to "pay attention to Kyiv's actions".
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- In a telephone conversation, Sergey Shoigu, Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, told his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu that Ukraine was allegedly preparing provocations involving a "dirty bomb".
- Russian media reported that the Ukrainian government was "preparing to conduct a false-flag operation on the territory of [Ukraine] involving a 'dirty bomb', or a low-yield nuclear warhead", allegedly in order to blame Russia for using weapons of mass destruction and thus turn the world against Moscow.
- Russian propagandists even claimed that "under the guidance of Western curators, Kyiv has already started to implement this plan in practice".
- Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, continued to spread false claims about Ukraine's alleged preparations to conduct "provocations" in telephone conversations with their Western colleagues.
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