Pentagon says no Ukrainian soiled bomb or indication of looming Russian nuclear weapon use

Ukraine will not be constructing a grimy bomb to detonate inside its borders as Russia has alleged, in line with a senior U.S. army official, who additionally famous that the Pentagon has not seen any indication that the Russians have determined to deploy a nuclear weapon.

Over the weekend, quite a lot of Russian officers started claiming Ukraine was trying to deploy a grimy bomb, which Western officers have been fast to denounce as false.

A senior U.S. protection official informed reporters on Monday that the “world would see via any makes an attempt to make use of this as a pretext for escalation," whereas the overseas ministers of the U.S., U.Ok., and France launched a joint assertion hours earlier calling the claims "transparently false allegations."

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"Ukrainians usually are not constructing a grimy bomb," the army official mentioned. "However we additionally haven't any indications that the Russians have decided to make use of nuclear weapons. So we'll proceed to watch carefully."

They have not seen indications Russia is planning to make use of organic or chemical weapons both.

Russian officers have repeatedly, all through the eight months of the struggle, accused Ukraine of getting ready to hold out damaging and horrific actions they themselves plan to execute, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky famous in his newest nightly deal with.

“If Russia calls and says that Ukraine is allegedly getting ready one thing, it means one factor: Russia has already ready all this,” he mentioned. “I consider that now the world ought to react within the hardest doable approach.”

Russian Protection Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke together with his U.S., U.Ok., and French counterparts on Sunday, simply days after he and U.S. Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin spoke for the primary time in months.

Austin “rejected any pretext for Russian escalation and reaffirmed the worth of continued communication amid Russia’s illegal and unjustified struggle towards Ukraine,” in line with a readout of the decision by Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear saber-rattling has spurred frequent condemnations and warnings from Western leaders.

“We’ve been very clear with President Putin instantly and privately concerning the extreme penalties that may comply with from any, any use of a nuclear weapon. We’re watching this very, very fastidiously. Now we have not seen motive at this level to alter our personal nuclear posture," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned final week, whereas President Joe Biden warned earlier this month that the usage of a nuclear weapon “may result in Armageddon.”