Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke with US, UK, French and Turkish officials cautioning Kiev was preparing a dirty bomb attack
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Russia’s top defense official held a flurry of calls with other military chiefs to forewarn a nuclear false flag would soon happen in Ukraine. The call between Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was the second in three days.
The Kremlin says Shoigu held calls with Austin, UK Minister of Defense Ben Wallace, French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu, and Turkish Minister of Defense Hulusi Akar. Moscow provided few details about the calls. TASS reported the calls were to “convey Russia’s concerns over possible provocations with the use of a dirty bomb in Ukraine.”
The call between Austin and Shoigu is the second in three days after the defense chefs went several months without talking. TASS says the US initiated Friday’s call. The Pentagon said Sunday’s call was a follow-up conversation requested by Shoigu.
The Department of Defense readout said, “Secretary Austin rejected any pretext for Russian escalation and reaffirmed the value of continued communication amid Russia’s unlawful and unjustified war against Ukraine.”
On the Russian Ministry of Defense’s Telegram channel, the Kremlin issued three statements saying Shoigu additionally spoke with Wallace, Akar and Lecornu. In the nearly identical posts, Russia says Shoigu discussed the “rapidly deteriorating” situation in Ukraine and the potential use of a dirty bomb.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky called for Western strikes on the Kremlin. In an interview with Canadian media on Sunday, the Ukrainian leader said “If their message is that there will be a strike on the decision-making center (of Ukraine), the answer of the world should be the following: ‘Look, if you hit Bankova (the street in Kyiv where the presidential office is located) there will be a strike on where you are. If you do this, then in a second, regardless of the result of your attack, there will be a strike on the decision-making center of your state.’”
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
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UN SC to discuss Kiev’s “dirty bomb” threat today or tomorrow — Lavrov
MOSCOW, October 24. /TASS/. The risk of Kiev using a “dirty bomb” will be on the agenda of the UN Security Council today or tomorrow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the media on the sidelines of the 19th annual meeting of the Valdai international discussion club on Monday.
“This issue will be discussed in the UN Security Council today or tomorrow,” Lavrov said.
He stressed that Russia had reliable evidence Ukraine may be planning provocations involving the use of a dirty bomb.
“Detailed information indicating the institutions that may be commissioned for this purpose was conveyed through the defense minister [Sergey Shoigu] during his contacts with his counterparts in the United States, Britain, France and Turkey. More contacts are planned between our defense ministries,” he continued.
Lavrov pointed out that “the unfounded denials by Western colleagues that these are falsehoods and that Russia itself plans to do something similar in order to later blame the regime of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky are not serious.”
“Some of our partners have really suggested a discussion of the information we have at a professional military level. This is a kind of approach that we supported,” Lavrov summed up.
Shoigu on Sunday held telephone conversations with British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu and Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar. The Russian defense minister briefed his counterparts on the concerns about possible provocations by Ukraine involving the use of a “dirty bomb”. On Friday and Sunday he talked by telephone with the Pentagon’s chief Lloyd Austin.
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