President Joe Biden speaks before receiving his COVID-19 booster during an event at the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex
US Vice President Joe Biden issued a stern warning to Russia, saying that opening nuclear weapons in conflict with Ukraine would be a grave mistake.
US Vice President Joe Biden issued a stern warning to Russia on Tuesday, saying the use of nuclear weapons in the conflict with Ukraine would be a "serious mistake".
"I spent a lot of time talking about this today," Biden told reporters after receiving a Covid-19 booster shot, his fifth dose of the vaccine.
Asked by journalists whether he thinks Russia is preparing a dirty bomb attack, for which he will blame Ukraine, Biden said: "Russia would be making an incredibly serious mistake if it were a strategic uses nuclear weapons."
This week Russia claimed that Ukraine could use a 'dirty bomb' on its soil. A dirty bomb is a conventional bomb containing radioactive, biological, or chemical material that explodes in an explosion.
The US and its allies fear that Russia may launch a "false flag" strike using a dirty bomb, possibly to justify the use of conventional nuclear weapons by Moscow as it finds itself in a precarious position in eastern and southern Ukraine. finds in position.
Biden said, "I can't guarantee that this is a false flag operation yet. We don't know."
NATO describes 'dirty bomb' as Russia's typical deception strategy
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg told AFP in an interview on Tuesday that Russia's warning that Ukraine is ready to use "dirty bombs" fits Moscow's track record of deceit, when it "accuses others". is what they themselves intend to do."
Moscow has claimed that Ukraine intends to detonate an original bomb that could spread nuclear, chemical or biological material over a large area. Western officials have denied this claim.
He worries that the Kremlin is preparing a "false flag" campaign where it launches such an attack and blames Ukraine for it. The Kremlin has suffered significant losses in its invasion of Ukraine as NATO countries support Kyiv with weapons and money.
The United States, France and Britain issued a unified statement saying that "the world will see any attempt to use this claim as an excuse to pursue it."
"I would be careful to speculate, but we've seen it before, we've seen it at the start of the war as well," Stoltenberg said in a video interview with AFPTV.
"A lot of false allegations against Ukraine were used to 'excuse' the subsequent invasion.
"They need to understand that we will not accept a false excuse so that Russia escalates the war in Ukraine," Stoltenberg said.
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