Yesterday’s meeting was held behind closed doors, details have not leaked out. But at the end of the meeting, the Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, echoed the Russian language: “We think this is a very serious danger, a serious threat. » “Ukraine has the capabilities and Ukraine has the motives to do so, because the regime of [Volodymyr] Zelensky wants to avoid defeat and wants to involve NATO in a direct confrontation with Russia”he added, referring to two structures capable of making these bombs “not sophisticated” in Ukraine.
“We have not seen or heard of any new evidence at this private meeting”replied the British Deputy Ambassador, James Kariuki, denouncing the ” disinformation “ of Russia. “Ukraine has nothing to hide, IAEA inspectors are on the way”he added.
kyiv has indeed requested the dispatch of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency. “I really doubt that it is possible to be 100% certain that there are no such activities even after this visit”commented Dmitry Polyanskiy, believing that he was “very difficult to detect activities aimed at creating these dirty bombs”.
Two more Security Council meetings are scheduled for this week at Russia’s request. The first, on Wednesday, to explain the reasons for its refusal of a UN investigation into the Iranian drones provided, according to the West, to Moscow in its war against Ukraine; the second, Thursday, on Russian accusations of the presence of biological weapons in Ukraine.