According to Ulianov, in the coming days several IAEA experts will go to Kiev and Zholtie Vodi, due to Russian warnings about the preparation of a “dirty bomb” in Ukraine, the Rossiya 24 channel highlighted on Tuesday.

The diplomat added that during the visit, samples will be taken for analysis, and in just over a week the preliminary results of these investigations will be known.

The day before, the director of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, announced in a statement that the agency’s inspectors are preparing to visit two nuclear facilities in Ukraine in the coming days, after receiving reports of suspicious activity carried out in them.

On October 23, the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, expressed to his counterparts in France, Turkey and the United Kingdom, the concern about a possible provocation by Kiev by detonating an explosive of this type.

This Monday, the media reported that the Secretary of Defense of the United States, Lloyd Austin, affirmed in his telephone conversation with the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Alexei Reznikov, that Washington rejects Moscow’s warnings about kyiv.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and his French counterpart Catherine Colonna, as well as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said their countries reject Russian claims that Ukraine is preparing to use a ‘dirty bomb’.

Earlier, sources from various countries, including Ukraine, reported Kiev’s preparations for a provocation on Ukrainian territory with the use of such a device.

A ‘dirty bomb’ or radiological dispersal device is a combination of explosives and nuclear powder or pellets that cannot cause an atomic explosion, but can cause serious injury and damage when blasted, as well as spread radioactive material in the area.

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