The International Atomic Energy Agency announced today, Thursday, that it did not find any indications of “unannounced nuclear activities” in three locations in Ukraine during searches at the request of Kyiv after Russian accusations of developing a “dirty bomb”.
According to our technical and scientific examination of the results thus far, there is no proof of unauthorised nuclear operations or radioactive materials in these three sites.
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Grusi added in the statement that the field inspections took place in the three sites at the request of the Ukrainian government, noting that the agency is ready to carry out more inspections there to ensure that there are no such activities and nuclear materials.
“We will announce our report on environmental samples results as soon as possible,” he added, referring to the samples collected by the agency inspectors.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that “in the last several days, the inspectors have been able to carry out all the activities that the International Atomic Energy Agency had intended to conduct, and it was allowed to enter the sites without obstruction.”
Dimtero Couliba, the foreign minister of Ukraine, thanked the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Kyiv for their “great and quick” collaboration in exposing “Russian lies,” as he called it.
After Russia disclosed the existence of such activities at the three sites—the Kyiv Nuclear Research Institute, a mining and processing facility in the Joufati Kodi, and a factory in Dnibro—Ukraine asked the International Atomic Energy Agency in writing to deploy teams of inspectors.
While Kyiv thought that Moscow may deploy a dirty bomb, perhaps to justify the use of conventional nuclear weapons on the impact of its forces being settled, Russia has accused Ukraine of preparing to use dirty bombs on Russian soldiers.
The radiation bomb, sometimes known as the “dirty bomb,” comprises of conventional explosions that are surrounded by radioactive substances that are meant to disperse in the air when the explosion occurs.
Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, has already requested that IAEA inspectors visit Ukrainian nuclear installations “as soon as feasible.”
Atomic Agency: We did not discover any proof that Kiev was preparing a “dirty bomb”
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