Today, Western nations accused Russia of preparing to exacerbate the situation in Ukraine by threatening to detonate a device containing nuclear material.
Price stated that “there will be consequences for Russia in both scenarios” in response to the question of whether Washington would treat the use of a “dirty bomb” in the same way as the use of any other nuclear weapon.
We were very clear about this, whether I deployed a dirty bomb or a nuclear weapon, Price told reporters.
On Monday, a top US military officer declared that there is still no proof that Russia has decided to deploy nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons in Ukraine.
“We still have no indication that the Russians have decided to use nuclear weapons,” the official, asking the official, said, “There is no information that they had taken a decision using nuclear, bacterial or chemical weapons in the battlefield.
” In response to a question whether this matter includes the decision using a “dirty bomb”, the official said, “Yes. ”
On Monday, Russia declared that Ukraine is in the “final stage” of the “dirty bomb’s” destruction.
General Igor Kirillov, the Russian army’s official in charge of radioactive materials and chemical and biological products, issued a statement saying, “According to the information available to us, there are two Ukrainian organisations with specific instructions to make the so-called dirty bomb, and their work entered the final stage.”
And the “dirty bomb” or “radioactive”, a new term, entered the escalation and warning race, the exchangers, between Russia, Ukraine and the West.
One of the common weapons that various parties may use during military operations are dirty bombs.
This type of bombs consists of traditional and radioactive explosives, and works in a limited geographical space..
America: If a dirty or nuclear weapon is deployed, Russia will suffer the consequences.
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