- "There is only one subject who can use nuclear weapons in this part of Europe," the Ukrainian president said.
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| The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, during his speech this Sunday night. |
Zelensky asks to "react harshly" to Russia's "false statements" about a dirty bomb
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Sunday night for "the world to react as harshly as possible" to the "stories about the so-called 'dirty' nuclear bomb."
"I think that now the world must react in the harshest way possible," Zelensky said in his daily video to the Ukrainian nation, after indicating that Russia is "the origin of everything dirty that can be imagined in this war."
Zelenski made these statements after the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, expressed this Sunday in a round of talks with his counterparts from France, Turkey, and the United Kingdom his concern about the possibility that Kyiv will use a " dirty bomb.
The Ukrainian president listed a series of actions carried out by Russian troops in order to show that it is Moscow that initiated the escalation of the war.
"It was Russia that blackmailed with the radiation disaster at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. This is the trajectory of Russian missiles passing over Ukrainian nuclear facilities," he said.
In this line, Zelenski indicated that the Russian troops are the ones who are blackmailing with the detonation of the Kajovka dam. "It is Russia that uses phosphorus munitions, prohibited anti-personnel mines, and the full range of weapons against civilian infrastructure," he added.
"Wherever Russia has brought death and degradation, we are restoring normal life. Where Ukraine is, life is never destroyed; but where Russia comes and leaves mass graves, torture chambers and destroyed cities, mined land, destroyed infrastructure, and disasters.", he claimed.
"Ukraine is always about recovery, about life... There is only one guy who can use nuclear weapons in this part of Europe, and this guy is the one who ordered Shoigu to call," Zelensky said, referring to the Russian president. , Vladimir Putin.
The Ukrainian leader again asked for the support of his allies in order to end the war and "any possible Russian threat."
"Even Russia's own threat of nuclear weapons, and even more so against our country, which has given up its nuclear arsenal under security promises from the major nuclear powers, is cause for both sanctions and further strengthening of support for Ukraine. ", settled.
USA: "Clearly false accusations"
For his part, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, spoke this Sunday with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dimitro Kuleba, to reaffirm Washington's support for Kyiv, as well as express his rejection of Shoigú's "clearly false accusations".
"Secretary Blinken has expressed to Kuleba that the United States rejects Russian Defense Minister Shoigu's patently false accusations that Ukraine is preparing to use a 'dirty bomb' on its own territory," Department spokesman Ned Price said. , it's a statement.
Furthermore, Blinken maintained that the world would "see through any attempt by Russia" to use this accusation as a pretext for escalation.
Blinken and Kuleba discussed, in turn, the international commitment to continue helping Kyiv with humanitarian assistance "for as long as necessary", because the "responsibility" lies with Russia. They also noted "continued efforts to more broadly sanction Putin's war."
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