Ukraine alleges Russian dirty bomb deception at nuke plant

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s nuclear energy operator said Tuesday that Russian forces were performing secret work at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, activity that could shed light on Russia’s claims that the Ukrainian military is preparing a “provocation” involving a radioactive device.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made an unsubstantiated allegation that Ukraine was preparing to launch a so-called dirty bomb. Shoigu made the charge over the weekend in calls to his British, French, Turkish and U.S. counterparts. Britain, France and the United States rejected it out of hand as “transparently false.”

Ukraine also dismissed Moscow’s claim as an attempt to distract attention from the Kremlin’s own alleged plans to detonate a dirty bomb, which uses explosives to scatter radioactive waste in an effort to sow terror.

Energoatom, the Ukrainian state enterprise that operates the country’s four nuclear power plants, said Russian forces have carried out secret construction work over the last week at the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.



FILE - Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is seen from around twenty kilometers away in an area in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)


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[SheltieLover]

1. Of course ruskies are lying. Russia has never been anything but a terrorist state!

In my lifetime anyway.

[FredGarvin]

2. Maybe we should just negotiate with Putin?

Hey man, peace first.

Really bad optics

[oldsoftie]

5. What?

[Javaman]

8. please, continue senator. nt

[blue-wave]

3. More projection and lies from

the genocidal regime in the Kremlin.

[James48]

4. Not good.

President Biden needs to make a speech to the nation if Russia, and talk to the Russian people. Explain to them they are being misinformed by Putin. Biden should talk directly to Russian citizens and send it by internet everywhere.

As should Arnold Swartzenegger. Like Arnold did back when this kicked off. Another explanation of how they are being lied to, and they Ukraine is just defending itself, and the killing must stop.

[oldsoftie]

6. Hell, we have idiots HERE believing their crap about "nazis" & "biolabs"

[FredGarvin]

7. You do know that Russia has a media blackout going on

No western media is allowed.

[James48]

10. Ever hear of the internet?

That Is exactly what we invented it for, you know. To be able to communicate even if sobb by sone doesn’t want us to reach someone else.

[Bayard]

9. White is black

And black is white.

Russia is going to try to do this very thing to blame it on Ukraine, and hopefully turn the rest of the world against them.

[crud]

11. We know they are lying

They know we know they are lying.

Which essentially makes it a threat by Russia to detonate a dirty bomb. They want us to believe they are willing and ready to do this. We will soon find out what the "ask" is. Maybe they will "in the interest of humanity" agree to a ceasefire...blah blah blah.