
Putin of Russia joined his senior military leaders in making the assertion that Ukraine planned to use one.īut the top diplomats of the United States, Britain and France have firmly rejected the Russian claims, which were unaccompanied by any evidence. The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that it had inspected three Ukrainian facilities and found no evidence of illegal nuclear activity, debunking claims Russian officials made last week that Ukraine was using the sites to prepare a “dirty bomb.”ĭirty bombs are improvised bombs that use conventional high explosives to spread radioactive material into the surrounding area.



Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, after visiting the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex in September.
