Russia takes its case to UN Security Council that Ukraine is preparing to use a 'dirty bomb' on its own territory, an assertion dismissed by Western and Ukrainian officials as pretext for intensifying fighting
Moscow insists before UN Security Council that Kiev planned to detonate a"dirty bomb" in the conflict zone, but Western diplomats say Moscow provided no evidence to support the claim.
"We're quite satisfied because we raised the awareness," Russia's Deputy UN Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy told reporters on Tuesday. "We've seen and heard no new evidence," Britain's Deputy UN Ambassador James Kariuki told reporters, referring to Russia's "transparently false allegations." He added: "This is pure Russian misinformation of the kind of we've seen many times before and it should stop."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has responded by accusing Russia of planning such an attack itself to blame on Ukraine. Western countries also rejected Russia's allegation as a pretext for intensifying the eight-month-long war.'Military biological programmes' The move comes after Ukraine and Western allies accused Russia of using Iranian-made drones in Ukraine in violation of the resolution and asked Guterres to investigate.
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