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Is Ukraine really developing a dirty bomb? Be careful of Russian claims

The Russian Ministry of Defence has taken to Telegram to post accusations that Ukraine is developing a so-called dirty bomb. To support this claim, they’ve shared a number of documents. But these documents contain out-of-date and misleading images, some taken in Russia, not Ukraine. © Observers

Ukraine is apparently in the process of developing a so-called dirty bomb – a bomb containing radioactive elements – or, at least, that’s the narrative that Moscow has been peddling since October 23, 2022. The Russian Ministry of Defence posted these claims to Telegram and Twitter, along with illustrated documents meant to support these claims. But the images published in these documents are old and some of them were even taken in Russia. 

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