Moscow: Russia has claimed that Ukraine may use dirty bombs.
According to details, Russia has accused Ukraine of planning to detonate a radioactive dirty bomb, as Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu discussed the ‘rapidly deteriorating situation’ in the war in Ukraine in phone calls with NATO nations on Sunday. He made this claim.
According to foreign media, Shoigu said, without providing any evidence, that Ukraine could escalate the war by using dirty bombs in war zones. It should be noted that the explosion of a dirty bomb scatters radioactive waste, it does not have the destructive effect of a nuclear explosion, but it exposes large areas to radioactive contamination.
According to Russian media, the purpose of this provocation is to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine, and to launch a powerful anti-Russian campaign in the world, so as to undermine the world’s trust in Moscow.
While Western powers have rejected the claim, Ukraine has also condemned Russia’s unsubstantiated claims, calling them absurd and dangerous.
“If anyone can use nuclear weapons in this part of Europe, he can be the only one, and it is he who made Comrade Shoigu telephone here and there,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his nightly video message. has ordered.
The US, Britain and France on Sunday jointly rejected Russian claims that Ukraine was preparing to use a dirty bomb, and warned Moscow not to use pretexts to escalate the conflict.
President Volodymyr Zelensky also said that this meant that Russia itself was preparing for such an attack.
Notably, Russia has also been accused of planning to blow up the massive Nova Kakhuvka hydroelectric dam, upstream from Kherson, which holds 18 million cubic meters of water.