Russia used a photo taken in Slovenia – which actually dates back to 2010 – to tweet to confirm its allegations about the “dirty bomb” the Ukrainian government is currently working on. The complaint to unmask Moscow comes from the Slovenian government. Dragan Barbutovski, one of the men in Prime Minister Robert Golob’s office, accused the photo of being used “in bad faith and behind the backs of the Slovenian authorities”.
The starting point of the controversy are the accusations that the Russian government has been making in Kyiv for days, namely preparing a “dirty bomb”. On Monday, Russia’s Foreign Ministry accompanied a message posted in English on Twitter with a photo of a nuclear power plant, a radioactive waste storage site, reactors and even plastic bags of spent uranium and plutonium (the bags have the word “Radioaktivno,” which in Slovene inscribed ” radioactive”). Well, according to the Slovenian government, one of the photos used in the Russian tweet “from 2010” was used at various scientific conferences and published without Ljubljana’s consent. According to the Slovenian government, “radioactive waste will be safely stored and monitored and will not be used to make dirty bombs”.
The photo used by the Russian Foreign Ministry in its Twitter post (https://t.co/C9ty3hU3Ef) is an ARAO photo from 2010. pic.twitter.com/1f1DynuvFR
– Government of Slovenia (@govSlovenia) October 25, 2022