“President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday repeated Russia’s unsubstantiated warning that Ukraine was preparing to explode a so-called dirty bomb, as concerns rose in the West that the Kremlin was seeking a pretext to escalate its war in Ukraine,” the New York Times reports.
Putin Again Suggests Ukraine Will Explode ‘Dirty Bomb’
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