UN Security Council: Moscow insists on ‘dirty bomb’ accusations against Kiev

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“Ukraine has the capability, it has the incentive to do it, because (Volodymyr) Zelensky’s regime wants to avoid defeat and involve NATO in a direct confrontation with Russia.”

THE Russia repeated today, before the UN Security Council, its accusations against Ukraine, that it is building a “dirty bomb” and “doubts” that the inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency will prove that this is not the case.

At the initiative of Russia, the security Council discussed behind closed doors this afternoon Moscow’s claims that have already been rejected by Ukraine and the West.

“We think it’s a very serious danger, a serious threat,” Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said at the end of the discussion. “THE Ukraine it has the capabilities, it has the motivation to do it, because (Volodymyr) Zelensky’s regime wants to avoid defeat and engage NATO in a direct confrontation with Russia,” he added, pointing to two infrastructures that Moscow says they can build these “non-sophisticated” bombs in Ukraine.

“We have neither seen nor heard any new evidence,” commented Britain’s deputy ambassador James Kariuki, denouncing Russia’s “disinformation”. “It’s a waste of time, it’s clear Russian disinformation, the kind we’ve seen many times before, and it has to stop,” he continued. “Ukraine has nothing to hide, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors are on their way,” he added.

At Kiev’s request, the IAEA announced on Monday that its inspectors would visit the two infrastructures within the next few days.

“I doubt that it is possible to be 100% sure that there are no such activities, even after this visit,” Polianski commented, insisting that it is “very difficult to detect activities aimed at making a dirty bomb.”

The Security Council will meet twice more this week at Moscow’s request: Tomorrow, to explain why Russia is rejecting a UN investigation into Iranian drones that the West says Tehran is selling to it and used in the war in Ukraine. The next, on Thursday, concerns Moscow’s accusations of having biological weapons in Ukraine.

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