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© www.sbu.gov.uaYuriy Tandit, chief adviser to SBU Director Vasily Hyrtsak, said: “The DPR plans to use radioactive material to create a dirty bomb with which it can blackmail the international community and the government of Ukraine.”​
In concert with the constant shelling of east Ukraine by the Kiev junta, there is as always a barrage of propaganda coming from the Western media that conveniently shifts attention from the crimes committed by the Poroshenko regime. This time, The Times along with Newsweek and several other outstanding publications are claiming that the rebels in the east of Ukraine are building a dirty radioactive bomb. In this dastardly endeavor, the rebels are allegedly being helped by, who else, the Russians! Now where have we heard that one before?
Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine are "building a dirty bomb" with the assistance of Russian nuclear scientists, according to a Ukrainian security service report seen by The Times.

The dossier, which was also seen by IBTimes UK sister publication Newsweek, claims that Russian experts have extracted radioactive waste from a bunker at the Donetsk state chemical plant and transported it to a rebel base.

The experts are allegedly working on combining the hazardous material with explosives to create a dirty bomb.
The source of these outlandish claims are "supposedly hacked emails between rebels and radio communication interceptions and field operatives." Not only could the details, as usual, not be independently verified, Western media hacks received the information directly from the SBU. How's that for an impartial source!

Along with the alleged hacked emails, the following is also reported by Newsweek.
The dossier also contains a report from an undercover SBU agent in Donetsk and refers to intercepted radio and telephone communications. It is this agent's report, based on information apparently gathered during a vodka-soaked night with a separatist fighter and passed clandestinely to an SBU handler, that has sparked fears that the DPR is working on a dirty bomb. (The SBU said it could not provide recordings or transcripts of these conversations to Newsweek.)
Again, why are we not surprised? The SBU has previously detained journalists for not reporting on the situation in Ukraine in the way the SBU wanted them to. So does it seem reasonable to trust what the SBU now freely hands out to the Western media?
Three of the messages are claimed to be between the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) leader Alexander Zakharchenko and the rebel group's top officials.

One message from a rebel commander allegedly boasts that "the DPR will soon have an atomic weapon", and, in another message, Zakharchenko supposedly instructs the commander in charge of the chemical plant to expect "specialists from the Russian Federation" between July 2 and July 18, according to the Times.
Hmmm... spurious claims that a nation that West does not like has WMDs. Where have I heard that before...

The idea behind this supposed plot was uncovered by Yuriy Tandit, an SBU official who claims that the rebels want to build a dirty bomb with which they can blackmail the international community and the government in Kiev. Not much is said, however, about what exactly the rebels would gain by threatening the international community or the Kijev junta with a "dirty bomb". Anyone with an ounce of sense can see that, far from helping the rebels, such a scenario would play directly in the hands of the US/NATO who spend most of their time trying to find a way to make Russia look bad and, perhaps, justify NATO military aggression against Donetsk and Luhansk.

So what the Kiev junta and the Western media are actually asking us to do is believe that the Russian government has suddenly gone mad. That has been, after all, the object of their year-long demonization of President Putin.

The sad reality for NATO and the Western media however is that, along with a complete lack of evidence to support them, these 'dirty bomb' revelations have already been categorically denied by both the rebels in Ukraine and Russia. Then again, a lack of evidence never stopped the Western warmongers before, because they know they can rely on a steady stream of yellow journalism from BS-peddling outfits like the venerable Times, to bamboozle the Western public into supporting more suffering, death and profit for psychopaths in power under cover of tediously vacuous slogans like 'anti-terrorism' or 'freedom and democracy'.