Ukraine Simulated Dirty Bomb Based on Ionizing Radiation Sources: Russian MoD
12:48 12.12.2025 (Updated: 13:12 12.12.2025)
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The Security Service of Ukraine has simulated the explosion of a dirty bomb based on ionizing radiation sources in a crowded place, head of the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian armed forces Major General Aleksei Rtishchev said on Friday.
Ukraine's activities in the field of radiation safety, including attempts at nuclear blackmail by Kiev, are no less serious concerns than the Pentagon's work on the basis of Ukrainian biolaboratories, the military told a briefing, adding that there are risks of creating a so-called dirty bomb with its subsequent use "under a false flag."
"This is evidenced by the training methods available to us for representatives of the Security Service of Ukraine. One of the training areas simulates the situation with the theft of ionizing radiation sources, the manufacture of an explosive device and its detonation in a place of mass gathering of people," Rtishchev said, adding that not only spent nuclear fuel, but also graduated radioactive sources can be used to create such devices.
Kiev plans to drop shells filled with chemical warfare agents from drones, the senior military said, adding that in case of a radiation accident on the Russian-Ukrainian border, radioactive substances would cover a significant part of Ukraine and Europe. The risks of contamination of the Dnieper and the Black Sea by radioactive decay products of uranium from the Dnieper chemical plant in Ukraine are growing.
"Thus, the military and financial assistance of the West provokes numerous violations by the Kiev regime of international standards for the handling of nuclear materials. At the same time, Western 'patrons' do not take into account that the degradation of the public administration system can bring not only Ukraine, but also a number of European states to the brink of an environmental catastrophe," Rtishchev said.
Ex-chief of Zelensky's office Andriy Yermak personally supervised import of spent nuclear fuel to Ukraine, said the Russian Ministry of Defence on Friday.
Other statements by the Russian Defence Ministry:
USAID may be implicated in testing pharmacological drugs on the Ukrainian population.
Ukrainian forces are using banned chloropicrin in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics; caches of the chemical warfare agent have been discovered in the Belgorod region.
Expansion of NATO military-biological programmes creates threats to the biological weapons non-proliferation regime
