Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba asked for experts from the U.N. nuclear watchdog to debunk Moscow's claims that Kyvi plans to use so-called dirty bombs against Russia's military.
The move is an attempt to defuse the possibility of the Kremlin using a pretext to escalate its war in Ukraine. Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has claimed that Ukraine may use a dirty bomb, built from a mixture of explosives and radioactive material to cause contamination within a relatively small area.