The International Atomic Energy Agency announced, on Monday evening, that it had started searches in Ukraine at its request, after Russian President Vladimir Putin accused her of observing evidence of its development “a dirty bomb”.
According to a statement from the Vienna-based United Nations organisation, its inspectors “began and Sinhon shortly to verify the actions of two signed in Ukraine.
” The Agency’s general manager, Rafael Grossi, said that he will later this week “his initial conclusions of recent verification activities at the two sites,” according to the statement.
The International Atomic Energy Agency was requested to send inspectors to the two facilities by the Ukrainian government, which is why the inspections have taken place.
Russia accuses Ukraine of preparing to use dirty bombs against Russian forces, but Kyiv suspects that Russia may take this step to attribute the attack to Ukraine in an attempt to justify Moscow later resort to nuclear weapons, after recently incurred losses in eastern Ukraine and southern.
The government stressed that “no unannounced nuclear activity was identified” last week after announcing that it had checked one of the locations “a month ago.”
” What is known as the “dirty bomb” consists of traditional explosives surrounded by radioactive materials intended to spread in the air at the time of the explosion.
Putin contacted the organisation last Thursday and asked them to “as quickly as possible” dispatch a mission to Ukraine.
Does the atomic agency start inspecting Ukraine in search of a dirty bomb?
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