Nuclear escalation in Ukraine?
Biden turns to Russia: 'grave, grave mistake'
Created: 2022-10-26 04:50
By: Andreas Schmid, Christoph Gschoßmann
Russia further accuses Ukraine of preparing a "dirty bomb".
US President Joe Biden has now warned of a “serious mistake”.
All information in the news ticker.
"Dirty Bomb"
in the
Ukraine War
?
Russia repeats allegations.
"Like
Russia
's statements before February 24" -Lithuania warns of war escalation
This news ticker on diplomacy in the
Ukraine war
is constantly updated.
Update from October 25, 8:48 p.m .:
US President Joe Biden has warned Moscow again in clear words about the use of nuclear weapons.
"Russia would be making an incredibly grave mistake if it were to use tactical nuclear weapons," Biden said Tuesday when asked whether Russia was preparing to use a nuclear-contaminated bomb or nuclear weapons.
"I can't guarantee it's a false flag operation," Biden said, referring to Russia's claim that Ukraine was planning to detonate a dirty bomb and then blaming it on Russia.
"I don't know, but it would be a bad, bad mistake."
The National Security Council's communications director, John Kirby, also stressed Monday that Russia had "occasionally blamed others for things it intended to do."
However, there is currently no evidence that this is the case here, according to Kirby.
"But it's a spectacle we've seen before."
US President Joe Biden speaks on energy and the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during an event in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
© Evan Vucci/dpa
Hofreiter demands more anti-aircraft systems from Germany for the Ukraine
Update from October 25, 8:06 p.m.:
More Iris-T systems for Ukraine?
The Green politician Anton Hofreiter has demanded the delivery of further anti-aircraft systems from Germany.
"Three more Iris-T systems are not enough," Hofreiter told Die
Welt
(Wednesday).
"If the production capacities are no longer there, we will have to examine more closely whether we can supply Patriot systems from Bundeswehr stocks and more cheetahs." could.
Chechen ruler expresses dissatisfaction with the course of the war in Ukraine
Update from October 25, 7:28 p.m .:
The notorious ruler of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has again expressed his dissatisfaction with the course of the war in Ukraine.
"We used to say that we were conducting special military operations on the territory of Ukraine, but the war is already taking place on our territory," Kadyrov said on his Telegram channel on Tuesday.
He is very dissatisfied with it.
At the same time he threatened Ukraine's western support countries with annihilation.
Martial law has already been imposed in regions bordering Ukraine, Kadyrov said.
"But they continue to shoot at peaceful citizens and civilian objects." Russia's response to this was "weak," Kadyrov criticized.
In retaliation, he demanded the obliteration of Ukrainian cities "so that we may see the distant horizon."
Eight months after the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin declared martial law in several areas annexed in violation of international law.
Ukraine wants to recapture the occupied territories.
Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky warns of a nuclear explosion in Ukraine
Update from October 25, 3:45 p.m
.: After the Kremlin statements about a “dirty bomb” in Ukraine, Duma MP Leonid Slutsky warns of a nuclear explosion in Ukraine.
It could also hit the US.
"If Ukrainian instigators blow up a nuclear bomb, the consequences will also affect the United States and the whole world in one way or another," the state news agency Tass quoted the politician as saying.
Russia has repeatedly warned of a nuclear catastrophe and will "make every possible effort to prevent it".
Slutsky is chairman of the far-right LDPR party and is on the US sanctions list.
Shortly after the beginning of the Ukraine war, he was involved in the then Russian-Ukrainian negotiations.
However, they failed unsuccessfully.
An end to the war through diplomatic channels is currently not in sight.
Vladimir Medinsky (from left) and Leonid Slutsky (from right), members of the Russian delegation, and the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov (middle back) at war negotiations in March.
© Alexander Kryazhev/imago
Update from October 25, 2:40 p.m
.: Russia continues to insist that Ukraine is preparing to use a radioactive “dirty” bomb in the war.
After Lavrov's spokeswoman Zakharova, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov is now following suit.
The US refusal to take notice is unacceptable in the face of such a threat, Peskov told Russian news agencies.
"This is an approach that is far from serious, an approach that I would say is inappropriate given the seriousness of the threat we are talking about."
Peskov also commented on the appointment of Rishi Sunak as the new British prime minister.
"Right now we don't see any assumptions, no foundation and we have no hope that there will be any positive changes any time soon," he said.
"Dirty bomb" in the Ukraine war?
Russia repeats allegations
First report from October 25, 1 p.m
.: Moscow – In the Ukraine war there is currently a lot of talk of a “dirty bomb”.
With this expression, Russia accuses Ukraine of wanting to detonate a nuclear-contaminated bomb.
Russia made the allegations public at the weekend, Ukraine, the USA, France and Great Britain rejected them.
Now Russia is following up – with an offer to the West.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that Moscow was prepared to "provide detailed information on Kiev's preparations for a provocation by using a dirty bomb to all interested" states.
Speaking to the US, France and Britain, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said: “What they should do now is to postpone all their business, sit down and review the materials mentioned by Russia in phone calls and publicly analyze the information .”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
© IMAGO / SNA
"Like Russia's statements before February 24" -Lithuania warns of war escalation
There was initially no renewed reaction from the states, instead Russia's neighbor Lithuania spoke out.
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis called on the West to take the Kremlin's claims seriously.
Moscow's allegations could possibly be the prelude to a military escalation, said the chief diplomat of the Baltic EU and NATO country on the radio on Tuesday.
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"It's very reminiscent of Russia's statements leading up to February 24," Landsbergis said.
At the time, before the attack on Ukraine, Moscow had also spread false information about chemical plants that allegedly existed in Ukraine.
“Some partners took it seriously, but not necessarily all.
We thought it was just a campaign of lies by Russia, but we'll see how it turned out," he said.
(as with dpa material)
