"Nuclear weapons only from Putin": Selenskyj warns - and Orbán predicts the demise of the EU

Created: 2022-10-23 21:11

By: Florian Naumann

Russia raises new allegations against Ukraine - Volodymyr Zelenskyj speaks of "dirt".

Viktor Orbán turns against the EU.

The news ticker.

• Putin minister Shoigu

  worried with

  'dirty bomb'

  warning : Zelenskyy accuses Russia.

• Russia sanctions

  in the

  Ukraine war

  : Orbán predicts the downfall of the EU.

• This

  news ticker

  on

  diplomacy in the Ukraine war

  is continuously updated.

Moscow/Kyiv – The military situation in the Ukraine conflict seems unchanged – but a turn of events on the diplomatic scene is causing concern: Vladimir Putin's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has accused Ukraine of building a "dirty bomb".

A short time later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the world community to resolutely resist any further escalation of the war by Russia.

Putin minister Shoigu worried with warning of "dirty bomb": Zelenskyy accuses Russia

If Moscow accuses Ukraine of wanting to throw a so-called dirty bomb, it is preparing something dirty itself, Zelenskyy said in his evening video address on Sunday.

He spoke of a "telephone carousel" Schoigus with the ministers of the NATO countries France, Great Britain, Turkey and the USA.

"If anyone can use nuclear weapons in our part of Europe, there is only one - and this one ordered Comrade Shoigu to call there," said Zelenskyy, referring to Vladimir Putin.

The world must make it clear that it is not ready to swallow this "dirt".

"Wherever Russia goes, it leaves behind mass graves, torture camps, destroyed towns and villages, mined lands, destroyed infrastructure and natural disasters," the president said.

Russia sanctions in the Ukraine war: Orban predicts the downfall of the EU

Britain's Defense Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed Schoigu's call.

However, he objected to Russian reports that his country was in talks with Ukraine about the delivery of nuclear weapons components.

He warned that such claims could be used as a pretext for a "major escalation".

Adversity also threatens in the EU.

Hungary's right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused Brussels of "shooting" underhandedly against Hungary with the sanctions against Russia.

He predicted a fate similar to that of the Eastern Bloc for the European Union on Sunday, during a speech in the city of Zalaegerszeg on the occasion of the holiday commemorating the 1956 uprising in Hungary.

Posters reading “Brussels sanctions are ruining us” were put up in Budapest and other parts of the country.

Meanwhile, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) are campaigning for a “Marshall Plan” to rebuild Ukraine.

In a joint article for the

, they write that it is “a generational task that must begin now”.

A reconstruction conference for Ukraine will take place in Berlin on Monday (24 October).