Zelenskyy responds to accusations of organizing false-flag attacks with "dirty bomb"

He said this in an evening address on October 23.

“When today the Russian Minister of Defense sets up a phone carousel and calls foreign ministers with stories about the so-called dirty nuclear bomb, everyone understands everything well. They understand who is the source of everything dirty that can be imagined in this war. Ukraine is always about recovery.  Always about life. And if someone can use nuclear weapons in our part of Europe, then it is only one subject - and this subject just ordered Comrade Shoigu to call somewhere there.

If Russia calls and says that Ukraine is allegedly preparing something, it means one thing: Russia has already prepared all this. I believe that now the world should react as harshly as possible. If Russia has prepared another rate hike and another escalating step, it has to see that the world will not swallow it now, preemptively and before any new "dirt" of its own. Because the stronger they support us, the sooner this war and any possible Russian threats will end. When a terrorist state raises the stakes, it must feel that it will not work,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

• On Sunday, October 23, 2022, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu called NATO countries and accused Ukraine of preparing false-flag attacks with a "dirty bomb".