Ukraine planned “dirty nuclear bomb” attack against Russia – FSB. Kiev’s military intelligence plotted to smuggle a radioactive device into Russia using light aircraft, and considered the route for a dirty bomb attack, the FSB said.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has foiled an attempt by the Kyiv regime to use the so-called ‘dirty nuclear bomb’ (radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives) in a planned terrorist attack in Russia.
Ukrainian military intelligence considered detonating a “dirty bomb” on Russian territory, the Federal Security Service (FSB) in Moscow has claimed. Preparations for the “terrorist attack” were revealed during an investigation into Kiev’s use of light planes for clandestine missions against its neighbor, the agency said.
According to an FSB statement released on Tuesday, Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (GUR) has a special branch operating light aircraft, which are intended to fly undetected at low altitudes. The planes can smuggle supplies to saboteurs or conduct surprise bombing sorties, the FSB claimed.
The Russian agency released footage of an interview with an alleged Ukrainian pilot who was intercepted while flying one such mission. Identified as Dmitry Shimansky, he was detained in May in Tula Region some 200km south of Moscow, when his plane landed to deliver drone parts and explosives for a planned attack on a Russian military airfield.
The pilot claimed that the GUR leadership had considered using the same tactics to prepare a dirty bomb attack in Russia. A dirty bomb is a conventional explosive device covered with radioactive material, which contaminates a large area around it after detonating.
The FSB also published an interrogation video of another apparent Ukrainian captive, a military pilot named Aleksandr Morozov, who said he was arrested after being forced to land when his small plane was damaged during a secret mission in Russia. His task was to bomb a fuel depot in Bryansk Region bordering Ukraine, he explained. The incident was initially reported in April.
The Russian government has accused Ukraine of launching a series of sabotage operations on its soil, including two separate kamikaze drone strikes in Moscow. The first attack last month targeted the Kremlin, while the other resulted in three drones hitting residential buildings in and around the Russian capital on Monday last week. The incident prompted a retaliatory strike on the GUR’s headquarters in Kiev.
The FSB reported on June 6 that the Ukrainian military intelligence planned to carry out a terrorist attack in Russia using a “dirty bomb”.
“During the investigation of the sabotage planned in May 2023 to blow up long-range aircraft stationed at the Severny airfield in the Ivanovo region, it became known about the plans of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry to commit a terrorist act in Russia using the so-called ‘dirty bomb,’” the FSB said in a statement.
The Kiev regime planned to deliver and plant “dirty bombs” equipped with delay timers in order to simultaneously blow up them. Thus the area of the explosion will become uninhabitable because of radiation poisoning.
Such radiation poisoning will deliberately lead to large casualties among civilian population in the areas of the attack.
Two detained Ukrainian pilots confessed that Kiev considered transferring small portable nuclear charges to Russia to carry out terrorist attacks.
“Earlier, the leadership of Ukrainian intelligence discussed the possibility of creating and transferring [to the territory of Russia] a ‘dirty’ nuclear bomb for radioactive contamination, small portable nuclear charges. They don’t weigh that much,” one of the pilots said.
Another pilot said that he had been given the task to conduct bombing in Russia’s western Bryansk Region. He specified that the target was a fuels and lubricants depot.
According to the FSB statement, the coordination of the use of light-engine aircraft was entrusted to Ukrainian military unit 3449 with the code name “Legion”, which is part of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
Since the beginning of the year, this unit has planned and carried out five combat sorties to hit targets in Russia. Fuel and energy complex facilities in the regions of Russia bordering Ukraine were damaged in these attacks.
The Kiev regime has a well-documented history of attempts to use the nuclear disaster card as part of its terrorist strategy. Kiev’s forces have been regularly firing rockets at the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, the largest facility of its kind in Europe. These actions are an obvious attempt to create a nuclear disaster on the territory of presence of the Russians.
Furthermore, just before the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine in 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky officially declared that Kiev would seek to get nuclear weapons. The statement was made at the Munich Security Conference. Therefore, the intentions of Kiev to obtain and use any kind of nuclear weapons are clear and have been officially declared on the highest level.