Russian provides no evidence of Ukraine's possible use of "dirty bombs," - representative of Britain at UN

This is reported by Reuters.

Russia has alleged that Kyiv has ordered two organizations to create a dirty bomb, without giving any evidence. Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia sent a letter to the United Nations on Monday detailing the accusations.

"We're quite satisfied because we raised the awareness," Russia's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told reporters. "I don't mind people saying that Russia is crying wolf if this doesn't happen because this is a terrible, terrible disaster that threatens potentially the whole of the Earth," said Deputy Ambassador of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy in a comment to journalists.

When asked what evidence Russia had to back its claims, Polyanskiy told reporters that it was intelligence information that had been shared with Western counterparts with the "necessary level of clearance."

In turn, the deputy ambassador of Great Britain to the UN, James Kariuki, emphasized that Russia did not provide any new evidence during the meeting in favor of its statements.

"We've seen and heard no new evidence," James Kariuki told reporters, referring to Russia's "transparently false allegations. “This is pure Russian misinformation of the kind of we've seen many times before and it should stop," added Britain's deputy ambassador to the UN.

Before Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had at least four telephone conversations with colleagues from other countries (including Great Britain and the USA), he claimed that Ukraine was preparing a "dirty bomb" attack on its territory in order to blame Russia for this. 

The foreign ministers of the United States, Great Britain and France said that they reject the blatantly false statements of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu in this regard.

Western analysts believe that in this way Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu tried to scare and slow down or suspend military aid to Ukraine.

According to military experts, sanctions against Rosatom could stop Russia's nuclear blackmail.

On October 24, it became known that the head of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces also began to inform his colleagues about the Ukrainian "dirty nuclear bomb" by phone - at least it is known about his calls to the USA and Britain.