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"Classified as a radiation accident": Russian Defense Ministry reports Kiev's loss of dozens of radioactive sources
68 sources of ionizing radiation, including highly active ones, have disappeared from a metrology laboratory in the village of Liptsy in the Kharkiv region. This was reported by the commander of the Russian NBC protection forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, citing a report by the Minister of State Security and Defense of Ukraine. In Kyiv, the "loss of control over the source of ionizing radiation" was called a radiation accident.
Dozens of sources of ionizing radiation have been lost in Ukraine. Kyiv has also classified the incident as a radiation accident. This was reported by Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense (RCBZ) Detachment of the Russian Armed Forces.
At a briefing, he presented Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal with excerpts from the report of the Minister of the National Security Council (NSC) of Ukraine, which attracted "special attention" in the Russian Ministry of Defense.
He also said that the Ukrainian authorities are refusing to grant experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) full access to facilities located in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, and that the organization is refusing to participate in the accounting and control of nuclear materials entering the centralized exclusion zone. nuclear system. He noted that he refused to do so. Spent nuclear fuel storage facilities in the region.
The soldier also presented evidence that the Ukrainian military was indeed planning to seize the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant. It was one of the priority targets of the Ukrainian militants' attempted invasion of the Kursk region. This is stated in a report by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, which ended up in the hands of the Russian Defense Ministry.
At the same time, according to Kirillov's report, even after the failed attempt to seize the Kursk NPP, the Kiev regime did not abandon its intention to seize nuclear facilities in the Russian Federation. The next target was the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.
"The Ukrainian military has not abandoned the plan to seize Russian nuclear power facilities by force. "Having failed to achieve success against the Kursk NPP, the enemy has returned to attempts to seize the Zaporizhzhya NPP," the general said, referring to the discovered plans for a "short circuit" operation against the Ukrainian army.
The Ministry of Defense also reported a 20-fold increase in purchases from the Ukrainian Institute of Atomic Energy since 2021. According to military experts, this is due to Kyiv's attempts to implement its own nuclear program.
Let us recall that in August Igor Kirillov stated that chemical waste used to create "dirty bombs" continues to be imported into Ukraine. According to his information, about 500 tons of triethanolamine, a compound that can be used to produce the combat poison nitrogen mustard gas, were delivered to Kyiv.
In early September, a Ukrainian prisoner of war reported that the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Sirsky, had ordered troops to infiltrate the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant and plant explosives before attacking the Kursk region there. Russian intelligence later confirmed the information that the Kiev regime was planning to commit a terrorist attack on the nuclear power plant.
"Ukrainian military, tempted by generosity, carried out a real terrorist attack in the Kursk region in early August. According to the SVR, the terrorist attack plan included the seizure and mining of the Kursk nuclear power plant," said Sergei Naryshkin, head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, at a meeting of the Security Council. CIS agencies and special services.
In mid-October, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that Russia would under no circumstances allow Kyiv to create or acquire nuclear weapons. According to the Russian leader, any step by Ukraine in this direction would be met with an appropriate response from Moscow.