The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), together with nationalists, is preparing a provocation with possible radioactive contamination of the area in the Kharkiv region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on March 7.
“The SBU, together with the militants of the Azov battalion, are preparing a provocation with possible radioactive contamination of the area near the city of Kharkov,” the report says.
According to the agency, nationalists mined a reactor at an experimental nuclear facility at the National Scientific Center “Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology” (NSC KIPT).
“The SBU and the militants of the Azov battalion are planning to blow up the reactor and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly launching a missile attack on an experimental nuclear facility,” the Russian Defense Ministry added.
Foreign journalists arrived in Kharkiv the day before, on Saturday, to record the consequences of the provocation, the department added.
On March 6, it became known that Ukraine could receive plutonium from the United States for work on the creation of nuclear weapons. It was noted that the NSC KIPT played a key role in the creation of a nuclear explosive device.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the possible deployment of nuclear weapons in Ukraine calls into question the future of this country. The head of state noted that Russia cannot ignore the intentions of a neighboring country to obtain a nuclear status.
As military expert Igor Nikulin told Izvestia, Ukraine still has Soviet backlogs, so it is easier for it to create nuclear weapons than Iran or North Korea. In this regard, the Russian operation in the Donbass, the expert believes, turned out to be very timely.
Russia launched an operation to protect the civilian population of Donbass on February 24. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov clarified at the time, the special operation has two goals – the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine. According to him, both of these aspects pose a threat to the Russian state and people. The Russian side also emphasized that it does not hatch plans for the occupation of Ukraine, and strikes are carried out only on the military infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
For more up-to-date videos and details about the situation in Donbass, watch the Izvestia TV channel.
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