West could help Ukraine with a dirty former MEP

A victorious country would never use such a weapon, argued Gunnar Beck

The West could secretly help Ukraine make a so-called “dirty” nuclear device to use against Russia, Gunnar Beck, a former member of the European Parliament for the Alternative for Germany party, told RT.

In an interview on Saturday, Beck commented on a report by Russian military journalist Marat Khairullin, who claimed that Kiev was planning “a nuclear false flag – a dirty nuclear bomb explosion” that would target “spent nuclear fuel storage sites of a nuclear power plant”.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry categorically denied the claim, calling it “dangerous lies”.

Commenting on the dirty bomb allegation, Beck said that if such a device had been used it would “undoubtedly be a further escalation”, especially “if it had been involved in an attack on the largest nuclear power plant in Europe ”, referring to Zaporozhye NPP in Russia.

He also suggested that while Western media and officials insist that Kiev can defeat Moscow, “countries on the brink of victory must not use dirty nuclear bombs” and that such a method would be “unprecedented”.

“I’m still skeptical if it will really happen,” admitted the former MEP.

He noted that the alleged plan to detonate a dirty bomb could be used by Kiev to persuade the West to increase its commitments to Ukraine in terms of supplying additional weapons, or even to send ground troops.

If the reports about the weapon are true, “obviously there is a possibility that Ukraine was helped” by the West in building a dirty bomb, because its creation requires a certain level of technological sophistication, Beck said. At the same time, he emphasized that the involvement of the West is not confirmed at this time.

A dirty bomb is a device that combines a conventional explosive with radioactive materials. Although it cannot match the destructive power of an actual nuclear warhead, its detonation could lead to radioactive contamination of a large area.

Russia has repeatedly accused Ukraine of plotting to detonate a dirty nuclear bomb and blame it on Moscow in order to gain Western support for the country and unleash a powerful smear campaign.

Russian officials have said that Kiev – which controls several fully operational nuclear plants – has the fissile material needed to mount such an attack.

(RT.com)