At the request of Kyiv, the International Atomic Energy Agency announced that it would visit two Ukrainian sites this week, after Russian President Vladimir Putin Ukraine accused of destroying evidence showing the development of a “dirty bomb”.
Rafael Grossi, the director general of the UN agency, indicated last evening that inspectors would conduct an independent audit to look for any transfers of nuclear materials.
Without providing any other information, he emphasised that the examination would happen in the upcoming days.
While the agency underlined in a statement that, given the significance and urgency of the matter, in addition to the customary report delivered to the Governor Council, it will publish its findings as soon as feasible.
These changes followed the agency’s confirmation on Thursday that it had searched one of the two mentioned sites a month prior but had not discovered any unauthorised nuclear activity.
Sayyid al-Kremlin called the organisation earlier on Thursday, requesting that they send a mission to Ukraine as soon as possible and highlighting the fact that Kiev wanted to deploy a radioactive weapon so that it could later claim that Russia had carried out a nuclear attack.
It is noteworthy that since the start of the Russian military operation on the Ukrainian lands on February 24, international concerns have escalated that the conflict would tend to undressing pitfalls, especially amid the Kremlin launching successive threats to nuclear use when feeling any threat.
Last week, Russia issued a warning, claiming that it was planning provocations against Kiev and attempts to use a “dirty bomb.”
Despite Kiev’s denial of these charges, Moscow reportedly had a number of.
The Atomic Agency examines two sites in Ukraine in quest of a dirty bomb
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