It will come up for renewal next month - but Russia has threatened to pull out. United Nations and Turkey in July to ease a global food crisis. The comments come as Kyiv accused Russia of blocking full implementation of the agreement, which was brokered by the The United Nations said today that 'urgent' steps are needed to relieve a backlog of more than 150 ships involved in a deal that allows Ukraine to export grain from the Black Sea. Russia, on the other hand, has a huge stock of nuclear warheads. Ukraine does not possess nuclear weapons, having given up the ones it inherited from the Soviet Union in 1994. It is important to note so-called dirty bombs are not nuclear weapons and are instead conventional explosives laced with radioactive material. 'So, in Ukraine there are nuclear industry enterprises that have stocks of radioactive substances that can be used to create a 'dirty bomb'.' 'For this, Ukraine has an appropriate production base and scientific potential,' a Russian defence ministry spokesperson said. It claimed the office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been in contact with UK representatives about the possibility of obtaining technology for the creation of nuclear weapons. In a lengthy post on Telegram, the Russian defence ministry echoed comments by senior Kremlin figures that Ukraine is planning a 'dirty bomb' attack ( see 6.33am post).

Russia has claimed - without providing evidence - that Ukraine has been in contact with the UK about the possibility of creating nuclear weapons. The photograph is actually a behind the scenes shot from the film Revolution Man - an anti-White Helmets film made in 2018 by a Syrian film company.Įliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat and the person who debunked the images in 2018, pointed this out in a Twitter thread.Īnother photo included alongside the claim that Ukraine is creating a dirty bomb was posted online as early as 2016. This claim has previously been disproved.

They claim that it shows White Helmets creating propaganda films about fake attacks on civilians in Syria. This photo, included by the Russian MOD in today’s presentation, was also previously used by Russia in 2018. They claim that this was previously done during the Syrian civil war. One claim was that provocation around a 'dirty bomb' was intended by Ukraine to cause panic and increase the flow of refugees across Europe.Ī reverse image search of this still reveals that it was taken during 11 September 2001 in New York.Īnother claim is made that the West use false information to provoke Russia and justify military action.

Today the Russian Ministry of Defence released a presentation to back up claims that Ukraine might use a ‘dirty bomb’ in the war – but some of the pictures used are fake or out of context.

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