During a UN Security Council meeting, Britain and France refuted claims by Russian authorities about alleged preparations to transfer a nuclear bomb to Ukraine. The British government and the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry also rejected these claims, calling them false and absurd.
This was reported by Suspilne.
Russia’s representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, repeated Moscow’s claim that it was allegedly preparing to transfer a “nuclear bomb” to Kyiv. In response, UK Minister of State for Europe, North America and Overseas Territories Stephen Doughty called these words an outright lie.
“The accusation made by the representative of the Russian Federation is an outright lie. He says that we have lost touch with reality. In fact, it is Russia that has lost touch with reality,” he said.
According to him, London is committed to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and does not and will not supply Ukraine with nuclear weapons or related technology.
France’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Jérôme Bonnafont, also refuted the Russian accusations, calling them gross misinformation with no factual basis.
“It is Russia that is violating the treaty, threatening with nuclear weapons for four years, concealing its proliferation maneuvers and supporting the nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, the civilian nature of which has never been proven,” he added.
The day before, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesman said that Russia’s claims about a nuclear and “dirty bomb” were false and an attempt to divert attention from Moscow’s actions in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgiy Tykhyi, commenting to Reuters, called these statements by the Russian Federation “absurd,” stressing that Ukraine has repeatedly refuted them and is doing so again officially.
On February 24, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service claimed that London and Paris were allegedly working actively on the secret transfer of nuclear weapons to Kyiv — atomic or so-called “dirty bombs” — which, according to the Russian agency, they plan to disguise as the result of Ukrainian development. Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov called this information extremely important, stating that it poses a threat to the non-proliferation regime and will be taken into account in further negotiations.
Speaking at a meeting of the FSB, Vladimir Putin also recalled the consequences of attempts to “use nuclear weapons,” stating that “Russia’s opponents understand how this could end.”