Shoigu calls UK Defence Secretary for the first time and tells him about “dirty bomb”

EUROPEAN PRAVDA – SUNDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2022, 17:26

On Sunday, 23 October, Sergei Shoigu, Russia’s Minister of Defence, had a phone conversation with the third NATO defence minister on the same day, Ben Wallace, the Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom.

The Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom issued a statement in this regard, as did Russia reported this on its Telegram channel, according to European Pravda.

"Shoigu expressed his concern about possible provocations by the Ukrainian side with the use of a ‘dirty bomb’ to his British colleague", –– the report states.

This was the first phone call between Shoigu and Wallace.

The Defence Secretary  of the United Kingdom became the third representative of a NATO member state (after France and Turkey) whom Shoigu called on Sunday to tell them about supposed plans for a Ukrainian "dirty bomb".

Previously, the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, known for spreading disinformation and propaganda, published a report about the possibility of Ukraine using a "dirty bomb".

According to the propagandists’ narrative, Ukraine is preparing to "detonate a nuclear bomb" on its territory in order to then blame Russia for using the weapon of mass destruction and turn the whole world against Moscow. All the well-known Russian propagandistic media outlets spread this information in an hour.

The Russian propaganda outlet had already reported on Ukraine’s alleged intentions to create a nuclear bomb. At the beginning of March, Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna negotiations on military security and arms control, claimed that the Russian invasion in Ukraine was aimed at preventing Kyiv from creating a "dirty bomb". 

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