kyiv can’t create a nuclear bomb, but can make a dirty one — politician – World

MOSCOW, October 21. /TASS/. Ukraine does not have the capacity to create a full-fledged nuclear weapon, but it is capable of making a dirty bomb, said former Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov.

“We have radioactive waste from the work of nuclear power plants. They (Ukrainians – TASS) can fill shells, bombs (waste) with it and drop them. All this will create radioactive contamination. The chances of creating a dirty bomb are big. “If the Americans, the real masters of Ukraine, do not prohibit this, they can do anything,” he told the Izvestia newspaper.

Azarov emphasized that nuclear research was carried out in Ukraine after that country renounced nuclear weapons.

“We have a pilot reactor in kyiv, there is an experimental nuclear reactor in Kharkov. According to my information, the Kharkov reactor was damaged by bombing and nothing is being done for the moment. And the one in kyiv is also out of order Therefore, all talk about making a nuclear bomb by kyiv is meaningless,” the politician concluded.

On October 24, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said at a press conference in Brussels that kyiv’s possession of nuclear weapons was the only alternative to NATO membership. Later, the Bild newspaper cited a source as saying that Ukrainian authorities were seriously considering the possibility of replenishing nuclear weapons stockpiles. Zelensky later told a joint news conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte that Ukrainian authorities would not produce nuclear weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with the leaders of the main BRICS media, called such statements by Zelensky “a new dangerous provocation”, emphasizing that it is not easy, if not impossible, for Ukraine to build nuclear weapons today. Moreover, Putin emphasized, Moscow is able to follow any move by kyiv aimed at acquiring nuclear weapons, and it is “impossible to hide such a move.” According to the Russian leader, “any step in this direction will receive an appropriate response.”