Fake: Kyiv wants to provoke a nuclear conflict
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"Ukraine wants to create an incident that will lead to a nuclear escalation in order to engage the power of the United States. And the emergence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine will be perceived by moscow as a "red line". Alan Freeman, an analyst at the Institute for the Study of Geopolitical Economy at the University of Manitoba in Canada, told russian media.
The truth is that this statement is a continuation of the kremlin's propaganda campaign to stir up "nuclear hysteria" and intimidate the international community in order to stop further support for Ukraine by Western countries. Ukraine has officially repeatedly stressed that it does not possess, develop or intend to develop nuclear weapons. All of these and similar allegations of ‘attempts to provoke a nuclear conflict’ are spread exclusively by russia and its "bought experts" to justify moscow's escalation.
The option of the United States transferring nuclear weapons to Ukraine is completely unrealistic, as in 1969, America joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), pledging not to transfer nuclear weapons to countries that do not have them. We also recall that Ukraine is fully transparent for IAEA monitoring, which excludes the use of nuclear materials from reactors for military purposes. Instead, it was russia that transferred nuclear weapons to Belarus in 2024 through an agreement with dictator Lukashenko, and is also helping to develop the nuclear capabilities of another dictatorial regime, Iran.
We have previously reported on similar russian propaganda fakes:Fake: Zelenskyi began blackmailing the West with nuclear weaponsFake: The West cannot defeat Russia and is provoking the Third World War
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Fake: Ukraine wants to buy uranium from Niger to create nuclear weapons
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russian media report that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is allegedly going to buy uranium from Niger to create nuclear weapons. The kremlin's disinformers have invented that in November 2023, a Ukrainian delegation led by the Minister of Defence of Ukraine allegedly visited Niger to sign a uranium purchase agreement with the French company Orano, which is engaged in uranium mining in the mines of this African country.
This disinformation was launched with the help of African media and has no factual evidence. Firstly, in November 2023, Ukraine's Defence Minister Rustem Umerov did not visit the African continent, and therefore did not sign any contracts. Secondly, the French nuclear fuel producer Orano, with whom the Ukrainians allegedly negotiated, lost its uranium mining licence in Niger following political changes in the country. Niger is currently reconsidering its relations with France, and countries such as russia, iran and China have become the main buyers of uranium: https://www.riotimesonline.com/france-faces-loss-of-uranium-supply-from-niger-as-iran-pursues-nuclear-material/
It is also worth noting that Ukraine does not have a nuclear weapons programme, which is regularly confirmed by the UN nuclear energy agency, the IAEA. Without this, the creation of nuclear weapons is not realistic for Ukraine. Ukraine has neither the funds, nor the time, nor the relevant technologies that cannot be simply bought on the market.
Both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have repeatedly denied their intentions to create nuclear weapons. russia is once again raising this topic in its controlled media to discredit Ukraine and stop military support from Western partners. At the same time, the kremlin regularly threatens Ukraine and its allies with the use of its own nuclear weapons, demonstration exercises of the military with a nuclear component, the transfer of nuclear weapons to Belarus, and is strengthening cooperation in this area with north korea and iran.
P.S. As of 1991 (after gaining independence), Ukraine had the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Due to pressure from russia and the United States, Ukraine was forced to give up its nuclear status. These agreements were followed by the signing of the Budapest Memorandum on 5 December 1994 between Ukraine, russia, the United States and the United Kingdom. These states pledged to guarantee Ukraine's independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
20 years later, russia annexed Ukraine's Crimea and launched a military invasion of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. And eight years later, it launched a full-scale attack on the entire territory of Ukraine with the intention of destroying its statehood as such. We live in a world where fraudsters and criminals dictate terms to free nations. To support or respect russia today is to be on the side of murderers and rapists.
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Fake: The West is working on creating a "dirty bomb" in Ukraine
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Fake: "Western countries continue to import radiochemical substances into Ukraine for disposal, which can be used to make a 'dirty bomb,'" the kremlin media quoted one of the russian generals. The general of the terrorist state added that "according to operational information", the main routes for the supply of radiochemical substances pass through Poland and Romania, while organizational, logistical and financial issues are personally overseen by the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak."
Truth: The creation of a "dirty bomb" in Ukraine is one of the favorite topics of kremlin propagandists. Back in March 2022, the russian "Interfax", referring to some "informed source", stated that work on the creation of such weapons was carried out in the territory of the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
The weak point of these versions is that the "dirty bomb", that is, a charge of ordinary explosive substance placed in a container with radioactive material, is an absolutely useless weapon in war conditions. Unlike nuclear weapons, a "dirty bomb" does not have a particularly powerful destructive effect, and the effect of radioactive contamination of the area does not manifest itself immediately, that is, it does not provide any advantages on the battlefield. It is also impossible to present the explosion of the "Ukrainian dirty bomb" as evidence of russia's use of tactical nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons leave a radiation trail, unlike a "dirty bomb."
The import of radioactive waste into Ukraine was first reported in 2023 by the French "independent journalist" Jules Vincent. At the same time, the fact-checkers of the Ukrainian publication StopFake drew attention to the fact that Vincent's account in X (former Twitter) was created shortly before this publication and was filled mainly with reposts, and the accounts subscribed to it are mostly bots, and no one knows Vincent himself in France. That is, a journalist with that name exists, but his photo in X does not look like this person's photo at all.
Vincent talked about some kind of agreement between the Ukrainian authorities and the son of George Soros, Oleksandr, on the allocation of 400 km² of agricultural land for the construction of a radioactive waste repository in the Ternopilskyi, Khmelnytskyi and Chernivetskyi regions to the companies Dow Chemical, DuPont, BASF, Evonik Industries, Vitol, and Sanofi.
Now the pro-russian media is pushing this topic with renewed vigor, even publishing a screenshot of Zelenskyi's decree and the memorandum signed by Yermak and Soros Jr. But in fact, Zelenskyi's decree No. 603/2023 (it is the propagandists who publish it as evidence) is called "On the awarding of state awards of Ukraine", and decree No. 107/2023, which Yermak allegedly refers to in the memorandum, is "On awarding O. Chornomorets the title of Hero of Ukraine". In addition, the forgery of "Zelenskyi's decree" contains a critical error in the name of the region - instead of "Ternopilska" it is written "Ternipilska". And after all, Ukrainian legislation does not allow the transfer of agricultural land to foreign companies at all, and the allocation of land plots is not within the competence of the President. So these documents are an ordinary forgery, and the fresh statement of the russian general is nothing more than a combination of two old fakes.
Nuclear blackmail is an integral part of russia's aggressive war against Ukraine. The aggressor is trying to present Ukraine itself as the source of danger. To do this, the russians are "looking" for evidence of the existence of the Ukrainian nuclear program, or of intentions to start it; scare the world with Ukrainian terrorists ready to detonate the so-called "dirty bomb" for the sake of provocation; accuse the Defense Forces of deliberately shelling the occupied Zaporizska NPP or russian nuclear facilities.
Also, the russians' information leaks on the topic of nuclear security have additional goals, namely:- inhibition of the development of the entire Ukrainian nuclear energy sector;- discrediting the American nuclear fuel supplier "Westinghouse", which is available on the global market to the russian "Rosatom";- accusing the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian special services of preparing sabotage at the occupied Zaporizhia NPP, attacks on nuclear energy infrastructure facilities in russia and temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine;- justification of own threats to use nuclear weapons;- conducting exercises with tactical nuclear weapons and their active "advertisement";- decrease in the level of economic and military support of Ukraine by foreign partners.
We will remind you that Zaporizska NPP has been under russian occupation for two years and is constantly used by the kremlin for provocations against Ukraine. The russians took the station personnel hostage, turned the nuclear power plant into a military base, and placed weapons there. At the same time, accusations against the Armed Forces of Ukraine for shelling the station, or at least for preparing such shelling or other sabotage with the aim of provoking a nuclear disaster, are constantly thrown into the information space. This does not prevent kremlin propaganda from simultaneously generating calls for strikes to disable Ukrainian nuclear power plants, and then, as usual, blaming Ukraine.
On June 26, the Telegram channel "Digital Army of russia", which is one of the platforms for the coordination of information attacks, published a video of the statement of the British politician and conspiracist Andrew Bridgen about the Ukrainian "dirty bomb". Over the course of two days, his statement was shared in various languages by more than 250 web resources, Telegram channels, and profiles in social networks targeting audiences not only in russia or Ukraine, but also in the USA, Great Britain, EU countries, in particular Germany. The traditional Telegram and X networks were used, as well as Pravda sites created to spread russian propaganda abroad.
In addition, the kremlin media actively uses the intimidation of a "Second Chernobyl" due to the transition of Ukrainian nuclear power plants, in particular the Khmelnytska NPP, from russian to American fuel. The term "Second Chernobyl" is actively used by russian propagandists and bot farms in the context of nuclear blackmail. The kremlin seeks to discredit and complicate Ukraine's course of strengthening capabilities and development of nuclear generation as much as possible. Currently, it is a critically important branch that provides electricity to both industry and domestic consumers.
At the same time, it is important for the kremlin regime to preserve and strengthen the position of "Rosatom", a state corporation that is complicit in armed aggression against Ukraine, on the international market.
According to the materials of Stopfake.org, Spravdi.ua, The Insider