NATO Officials Are Worried that Russia is Cooking Up a Dirty Bomb

Airmen from the 628th Medical Group decontaminate a simulated casualty during a mass casualty exercise at Joint Base Charleston — Air Base, S.C. The exercise scenario simulated the explosion of a dirty bomb, a weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. Public domain.

On Sunday, a peculiar thing happened — Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s Minister of Defense, called Hulusi Akar, the Turkish Foreign Minister.

Then he called Sebastian Lecornu, the French Defense Minister.

Then he called U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.

And then he called Ben Wallace, the Defense Secretary of the United Kingdom.

In all four phone calls, Shoigu warned his Western counterparts that Ukraine may be about to use a ‘dirty bomb.’

Just before the phone calls, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, a Putin mouthpiece, published a report about the possibility of Ukraine using a dirty bomb.

The report said that Ukraine is preparing to “detonate a dirty bomb” on its territory in order to then blame Russia for using the weapon of mass destruction and turn the whole world against Moscow.

Within an hour yesterday, all of Russia’s propaganda outlets were spreading the same information.

Ukraine quickly denied the allegation and Ukraine’s foreign minister tweeted that “Russians often accuse others of what they plan [to do] themselves.”

This has NATO officials alarmed.