Russia has accused the West of training Ukrainian saboteurs to target its nuclear facilities.
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin slammed the West over its support for Ukraine while speaking to reporters, according to the state-run TASS News Agency.
He said: “It has come to the point where Western intelligence agencies are training Ukrainian sabotage and terrorist combat groups for attacks on Russia’s nuclear energy facilities. This has been confirmed.”
Naryshkin went on to claim that Russia’s FSB had already thwarted attacks by saboteurs without providing proof.
He said: “Such actions have certainly been prevented by our intelligence agencies [and] the Federal Security Service.
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“Attempts have been made to cause damage to the Kursk, Smolensk and Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plants. Clearly, it’s hard to maintain any contacts with Western intelligence agencies under such circumstances.”
Naryshkin didn’t give a reason why Ukrainian forces would want to target Russia’s nuclear reactors but pointed to what he called “terrorist” actions by Kyiv.
The comments come amid soaring nuclear tensions between Russia and NATO as Vladimir Putin prepares to rip up a key treaty which bans nuclear testing.
Putin has hinted Russia could begin testing its nuclear weapons and claimed to have tested a nuclear-powered missile earlier this month.
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There have also been numerous threats against Ukraine and its Western allies by Russian propogandists and politicians.
Russia has the most nuclear weapons of any country at around 6,000 warheads. The US comes in second with around 5,500, according to the Federation of American Scientists.
Both countries only have around 1,600 strategic nuclear weapons which are deployed and ready to use.
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