After Mobilization, the Kremlin Is Turning to 'Dirty Bomb' Diplomacy
Russia has ramped up the claim, internationally and domestically, that Ukraine is preparing to use a ‘dirty bomb’. On Oct. 23, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu phoned his French, Turkish, British and American counterparts, in that order, to warn that Ukraine was planning to use a dirty bomb on its own territory. A dirty bomb – a conventional explosive including radioactive materials that would be dispersed by explosion – is an untested weapon of almost no military utility. On the battlefield, Russia, having suffered major losses around Kharkiv in the northeast, is hard-pressed around Kherson in the south and is also losing ground around Bakhmut, its only area of recent gains. Russia is now issuing its own, wholly unbelievable, warnings about a Ukrainian dirty bomb.
4 months ago
The Moscow Times
