Russian Defense Ministry said they have information about the contacts of Zelensky's office with representatives of Britain on the issue of obtaining technology to create nuclear weapons. According to Kiev's plans, the detonation of a "dirty bomb" can be disguised as an abnormal operation of a Russian nuclear munition
— the goal is to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction and launch a powerful anti-Russian campaign in the world aimed at undermining confidence in Moscow;
— two Ukrainian organizations have specific instructions for the creation of a "dirty bomb", the work is at the final stage;
— there is information about the contacts of the office of the President of Ukraine with representatives of the United Kingdom on the possible acquisition of nuclear weapons technology;
— there are enterprises in Ukraine with stocks of radioactive substances that can be used for a dirty bomb - three operating nuclear power plants (Yuzhno-Ukrainskaya, Khmelnytsky and Rivne) and the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant with radioactive waste storage facilities;
— more than 50 000 m3 of radioactive waste, which can also be used for a "dirty bomb", can be placed at the newly created enterprise for the processing of radioactive waste "Vector", at the Dnieper chemical Plant, at the disposal sites of radioactive waste "Buryakovka", "Podlesny", "Rossokha", the Vostochny Mining and Processing Plant is producing uranium ores;
— Ukraine also has a corresponding scientific base - the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, whose scientists participated in the USSR nuclear program and where experimental facilities operate, including the Uragan thermonuclear installations, as well as the Institute for Nuclear Research at the Academy of Sciences in Kiev, where research with radioactive materials is conducted at the VVR-M reactor in.The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has prepared forces and means in case of a “dirty bomb” being detonated by Ukraine.
Posted by: rk | Oct 24 2022 11:17 utc |
I do believe that Russia already succeeded in undermining confidence in Moscow all by themselves with the invasion in February. It sure didn’t need any outside help in reaching that goal.