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WASHINGTON, SANA- The Kiev government is in the process of orchestrating a provocation involving a dirty bomb or a nuclear power plant incident, Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov said in an article published on Wednesday.
“Today we face the threat of a radiation disaster. Kiev is planning to commit a provocation by exploding a ‘dirty bomb.’ Detonation of such radiological explosive device will have the magnitude comparable to an explosion of a low-yield nuclear weapon. The blast wave will disperse radioactive substances over the area of up to several thousand square meters. Contaminated territories will turn into an exclusion zone for 30-50 years,” the ambassador said in an article, posted on the embassy’s official Telegram channel.
According to him, the task of creating a dirty bomb was assigned to two Ukrainian organizations.
“Their work is at its final stage. Kiev has the necessary manufacturing base, scientific and technical capacity as well as stocks of uranium-235 and plutonium-239, which are the main components of a nuclear charge,” the article says.
“An even more dangerous scenario, being considered by Kiev, is a provocation at nuclear power plants located in the territory controlled by Ukraine. This could lead to an accident comparable to the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters which the world has not yet recovered from,” Antonov added.
The Russian ambassador went on to say that Russia was making every effort to warn the international community about the looming threat.
“Yet Washington shies away from our warnings, calling them ‘false’ and ‘groundless.’ It uses the formula ‘look who’s talking,’ as if unaware of how high the stakes are. Crystal clear is the aim of the Ukrainian authorities to make the provocation look like the use of a tactical nuclear weapon by Russia so that Kiev could pretend to be a victim and drag the United States and NATO directly into the conflict. To pit the nuclear powers against each other,” Antonov wrote.
“We are not starting the war. We are putting an end to it. The question is how far the US is willing to go. Will it be able to stop at a dangerous line?” he asked rhetorically.
The Russian envoy to Washington reiterated that “for more than eight years has the Kiev regime been consistently massacring the people of Donbass.”
In the ambassador’s opinion, “the Russian leadership made the only right decision – to launch a special military operation” on February 24 with the purpose of “demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine” and “liberating people from repressions of the Kiev regime.”
Source /Tass
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