According to Russian President Putin, Ukraine has now left control of the country to the United States. They, in turn, would use the country as a "battering ram" against the post-Soviet space. The Kremlin chief also repeats the claim that Kyiv intends to use a "dirty bomb."
According to Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, Ukraine has "de facto" lost its sovereignty as a state and has left control of the country to the United States. The US today used Ukraine as a "battering ram" against Russia and the post-Soviet space, Putin told a meeting of representatives of the state security organs of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. CIS members include the former Soviet republics of Belarus and Armenia, the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Putin urged countries' intelligence agencies to be vigilant. The US is arming Ukraine with more and more heavy weapons, ignoring that the country is aiming for a nuclear bomb. "It is also known that there are plans for a provocation to use a so-called dirty bomb," said the 70-year-old.
For days, the Russian leadership has repeatedly claimed that Ukraine is planning to use such a radioactive bomb without presenting any evidence. Ukraine dismisses these allegations as "nonsense" and a disinformation campaign by Putin. The West sees no evidence of this either.
Despite this, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu continued to call his colleagues in China and India, for example, to point out such a danger. The Kremlin announced that Moscow is also in talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Ukraine had invited IAEA experts to see for themselves that the Russian accusations were unfounded.
A "dirty bomb" consists of radioactive material released with conventional explosives. Unlike an atomic bomb, there is no nuclear chain reaction. Russia made the allegations public on Sunday, while Ukraine, the United States, France and Great Britain rejected them. Rather, Russia is suspected of preparing to use a "dirty bomb" in Ukraine itself.
