Russia will consider the potential use of a so-called “dirty bomb” by Ukraine as an act of nuclear terrorism, Moscow’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vassily Nebenzia, wrote in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
The Russian Defense Ministry warned on Monday that Kiev’s forces could be planning to detonate a “dirty bomb” in a bid to intimidate the local population, trigger a refugee exodus to the European Union and portray Moscow as “a nuclear terrorist.” The chief of Russia’s General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, further relayed these concerns to his US and British counterparts in a series of rare phone conversations, following similar calls by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu over the weekend.
“We will regard the use of the dirty bomb by the Kiev regime as an act of nuclear terrorism,” Ambassador Nebenzia wrote in a letter to the UN chief and the Security Council members, as reported by Reuters and RIA Novosti on Monday evening.
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