The use of a dirty bomb will finally bury Ukraine — Shurygin

The use of a dirty nuclear bomb will finally bury Ukraine, military expert Vladislav Shurygin said, commenting on reports that Kiev is preparing a nuclear provocation on the territory of Russia.

"I believe that this is unlikely simply because the use of such a bomb, even with the absolute loyalty of its sponsors and owners to Ukraine, in this case finally buries it. Because when using such a bomb, firstly, Russia will have its hands free. Secondly, it will simply be impossible to continue trying to pass off Ukraine as a victim," the expert explained on Channel Five.

An attempt to blame Russia for a nuclear provocation, according to Shurygin, is also doomed to failure. He recalled that a dirty bomb is, in fact, a "homemade" munition stuffed with radioactive elements, and it makes no sense for Moscow to use it in the presence of nuclear weapons.

"There is no need for Russia to detonate a dirty bomb if it has two thousand perfectly normal serviceable atomic bombs," Shurygin noted.

Earlier on August 16, military correspondent Marat Khairullin, citing his own sources, said that Kiev was planning to stage a nuclear provocation on the territory of the Kursk region. It is assumed that the Ukrainian militants intend to detonate a dirty nuclear bomb and strike at the storage sites of spent nuclear fuel of nuclear power plants during another attempt to break through from Glukhov to Rylsk. The source also said that special warheads for organizing a nuclear provocation have already been delivered to the city of Yellow Waters, Dnipropetrovsk region, to the Vostochny Mining and Processing Plant.