Inspectors are expected to visit two locations in Ukraine. However, the IAEA, which falls under the UN, has not specified what exactly it is. However, he said both facilities had already been inspected.
Dirty bomb
A dirty bomb is a bomb with a conventional explosive filled with radioactive material. It will result in space contamination, but no nuclear explosion.
“The IAEA inspected one of these sites a month ago and all of our findings were consistent with Ukraine’s statements on relevant security measures,” agency head Rafael Grossi said Monday.
He stressed that “no undeclared nuclear material or activity was found here”.
You don’t see such contempt very often. The Russians made it clear that Ukraine was not a state for them, Miko describes the atmosphere at the UN
War in Ukraine
The Russian state news agency RIA says it has identified two sites involved in the alleged production of the dirty bomb: the Eastern Mineral Enrichment Plant in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast and the Kiev Nuclear Research Institute.
The Security Council will also take care of it
The Russians will also present their accusations to the UN Security Council, which will meet on Tuesday 25 October.
“We will consider the Kiev regime’s use of the dirty bomb as an act of nuclear terrorism,” wrote Russian Ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and to the Security Council.
Russia keeps talking about the dirty bomb, which prepares soldiers to fight in radioactive contamination
War in Ukraine
He called on Western countries to use their influence on Kiev to force it to “drop dangerous plans that threaten international peace and security”.
Foreign ministers of France, Great Britain and the United States rejected Moscow’s accusations as “obviously false” and reiterated their support for Ukraine.