Russia warns several countries that Ukraine could end up using a dirty bomb in the war

A dirty bomb is an explosive that disperses radioactive material, contaminatingThe Russian Defense Minister assures that Ukraine could use these devicesUkraine rejects any attempt to use this type of weaponRussian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has once again expressed his concern on the possibility that Ukraine could in the future use a “dirty bomb” during the war in a round of talks with its counterparts from France, Turkey and the United Kingdom. A dirty nuclear bomb, or “dirty bomb”, as it is described by international organizations, is an explosive device capable of dispersing radioactive material, whose destructive capacity is significantly less than that of a nuclear weapon designed for this specific purpose but, in any case, represents a serious threat due to its polluting nature. Russia had already expressed previously his fear of this situation by accusing kyiv in October of trying to convert the Zaporizhia nuclear plant into a “dirty nuclear bomb” through constant attacks on the facilities and their surroundings, for which kyiv and Moscow blame each other.Dirty bomb concernThis Sunday, Shoigu told his French counterpart, Sebastian Lecornu, his concern about the possible use of this device given the “constant trend of uncontrolled escalation” that the conflict in Ukraine is exhibiting.”Shoigu communicated to his French colleague his concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine”, in particular, with the use of the so-called ‘dirty bomb’,” according to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry. The minister repeated the same statement in subsequent talks with his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar and Britain’s Ben Wallace, according to the note, collected by Interfax. In this way, the Russian Defense Minister held a telephone conversation this Sunday with the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, with whom he discussed the to the situation in Ukraine. “The heads of the defense departments have discussed the situation in Ukraine,” the Russian Defense Ministry reported in a statement collected by the Interfax news agency. Ukraine has categorically rejected any attempt to use such weapons in its defense of the invasion of Russia, although the president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, called at the beginning of the month to launch “preventive” attacks and not “wait for nuclear attacks from Russia”, statements interpreted from Moscow as a call for the use of weapons of mass destruction .