Russian claims that Ukraine is planning to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” and blame it on Moscow are being slammed as a “false flag.”
The United States has joined British and Ukrainian officials to dismiss unproven allegations from Russia’s defense chief that Ukraine is planning to detonate a radioactive “dirty bomb” and blame it on Moscow in what Russia is calling “nuclear blackmail.
U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace was among those cautioning that “such allegations should not be used as a pretext for greater escalation.” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed the claims Sunday night after a conversation with Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba. Blinken the U.S. rejects Russia’s “false allegations that Ukraine is preparing to use a dirty bomb on its own territory.”: “We both agreed Russia’s ‘dirty bomb’ disinformation campaign might be aimed at creating a pretext for a false flag operation.” Kuleba said Russia’s “lies... are as absurd as they are dangerous.” He said Ukraine was a “committed” member of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and confirmed “we neither have any ‘dirty bombs,’ nor plan to acquire any.
Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said: “The thought of a ‘dirty bomb’ is repulsive to us,” while Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak called it a “dirty attempt to justify the genocide with a new fake.
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