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US Officials Deny Claims of Russia Dropping ‘Dirty Bomb’ on Ukraine

U.S. officials are flatly rejecting as false repeated Russian claims being made to senior western officials that Ukraine is preparing to use a radioactive “dirty bomb” in Ukraine, saying at the same time they are not seeing any indications that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons.

In this weekend’s phone calls to top officials at the Pentagon, Russian military leaders indicated that the alleged Ukrainian use of a dirty bomb would be a justification for an escalation in the conflict, a U.S. official told ABC News.

Over the weekend, in an unprecedented series of phone calls to senior defense officials in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Turkey, senior Russian defense officials repeatedly claimed that Ukraine was possibly preparing to use a dirty bomb.

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