MOSCOW, Mar 6 The words of Vladimir Zelensky in Munich about claims to the nuclear status of Ukraine were not accidental, it could become a reality in the very near future, a representative of one of the competent Russian departments told RIA Novosti. status was not accidental.Immediately after joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons as a non-nuclear state in 1994, Ukraine began to carry out R&D (research, development work. — Note ed.) in order to form a technological basis for the possible creation own nuclear weapons,» the agency's source said.The source told why Ukraine used the Chernobyl nuclear power plant zone. According to him, these works acquired a clearly expressed practical orientation and growing activity in 2014 by the unspoken order of Petro Poroshenko, who then served as president.
"Thus, the data available in the SVR testify that R&D on the creation of a nuclear explosive device, which could later be used in the design of nuclear warheads, was carried out both in uranium and plutonium directions. The scientific community of Ukraine has sufficient competencies to create a device both "implosive", and "cannon" type", the source said.
He noted that Kyiv could also secretly acquire technologies for centrifugal uranium enrichment and laser isotope separation from the West. .jpg» />There is reason to believe that the United States transferred plutonium to Kiev, a source said. Plutonium from abroad To speed up this work, plutonium of the required quality was obtained from abroad at the initial stage. «According to available information, the United States has already transferred this material to its partners. There is reason to believe that that in the «Ukrainian case» it was not without the participation of Washington,» the agency's interlocutor said. According to him, the National Research Center «Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology» played a key role in the creation of a nuclear explosive device.
Threats to Russia's security are not «nonsense,» Putin said. calculations of the criticality of nuclear reactors, which are also applicable in the nuclear weapons field,» the source said. Assistance to scientists in the development of methods for separating isotopes of nuclear materials was provided by specialized structures of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in particular, the Institute for Nuclear Research and the Institute of Organic Chemistry located in Kyiv, he says. According to the Russian authorities, the Institute for Nuclear Safety Problems in Chernobyl, the State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety in Kyiv, and the Institute for Condensed System Physics in Lvov also participated in the work, which have a scientific background and corresponding software and hardware potential in the field of modeling the state of substances. zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
"It was there, judging by the available information, that work was going on both in the manufacture of "dirty" bombs and plutonium separation. The increased radiation background, natural for the Chernobyl zone, hid the conduct of such work,» the agency's interlocutor noted.
According to him, employees of the Odessa National Polytechnic University, who have significant experience in mathematical modeling of the kinetics of thermonuclear reactions, as well as specialized departments of the Kiev National University and the Institute of Physics and Technology of Materials and Alloys of the National Academy of Sciences, specializing in computer modeling, were involved in the development of certain problems in this area. in the field of hydrodynamics and continuum mechanics and continuum mechanics.
"Particular attention was paid to the implementation of projects in the field of metallurgy of nuclear materials and technologies for the production of special alloys, which were carried out at the Institute of Electric Welding and the Institute of Metal Physics", — said the source.
In addition, he said, the Institute for Problems of Materials Science and the Institute of Physics and Mechanics were involved in solving problems in this area, taking into account their experience in the field of special materials, including their anti-corrosion protection and processing.
NATO planned to unleash a nuclear war with Ukraine's hands, Azarov saidInterest in uranium…At the same time, in recent years, Kyiv has been actively interested in the topic of uranium enrichment.
"It is also noteworthy that in recent years Ukraine has stepped up geological exploration of deep layers in the territory of existing uranium mines, as well as the development of promising uranium deposits, in particular, in the Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk and Kirovograd regions", — said the interlocutor agencies.
According to him, at the same time, Ukrainian representatives initiated a dialogue with foreign companies on providing assistance to Ukraine in creating its own uranium enrichment enterprises in the country. ore, which can be used in the process of uranium enrichment in gas centrifuges without additional processing and purification,» the source said.The Foreign Intelligence Service has information about the development of nuclear weapons by Ukraine, Naryshkin said … And delivery vehicles «In parallel, work was carried out in the country to modernize existing and create new missile weapons that can be used as means of delivering nuclear weapons,» said a representative of one of the competent departments. According to him, Kyiv «covers» most of these developments with the implementation of joint projects with other countries. «So, in December 2013, Ukraine reached an agreement on cooperation in the missile sphere with Turkey. Ukrainian rocket and space enterprises "Yuzhmashzavod" and design bureau "Yuzhnoye", which previously participated in the creation of the Soviet nuclear missile arsenal", should play, — said the source of the agency.
According to him, the main goal of this cooperation is the creation of a mobile complex equipped with a solid-propellant ballistic missile with a range of up to 1,500 km. Yuzhmashzavod is also developing the Grom-2 mobile ground-based missile system at the expense of Saudi Arabia. In the export version, Grom-2, according to Kyiv, will have a range of up to 280 km,” the source said. up to 1000 km Since 2017, the Alibey missile range has been operated in the Odessa region to conduct flight tests of rocket technology, a representative of one of the departments specified. >The Foreign Ministry doubts that the United States did not discuss the deployment of nuclear weapons with UkraineQuestion of several months»Implementing programs in both the nuclear and missile spheres for more than two decades, Ukraine has consistently moved towards the formation of all the necessary conditions for creating its own nuclear weapons,» the agency's interlocutor said . According to him, «significant results» have been achieved in the field of modeling nuclear chain reactions, the separation of isotopes of fissile materials, as well as in the field of research and metallurgical nuclear materials.
"According to the conclusion of Western experts, the Kyiv regime was closest to the creation of a nuclear explosive device based on plutonium due to its covert production from spent nuclear fuel stored in the country", — said the source.
«Make such Ukrainian specialists could use the device within a few months,» he stressed.NATO and Ukraine are talking about the possibility of nuclear war, Lavrov said Documentation removed or destroyed Politekhnika.» «This was done, among other things, in order to avoid accusations against the Kiev regime about the presence of a weapons component in the «peaceful nuclear program» of Ukraine,» the source said.
According to the representative of the competent department, certain documentation was also available at the Zaporozhye NPP
"Battle clashes with Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the administrative premises adjacent to the nuclear power plant were, apparently, connected precisely with this", the agency's interlocutor said.
«The implementation by Kiev of its extremely dangerous nuclear Ukraine project could become a reality in the very near future,» he stressed, adding that the negative consequences of its implementation can hardly be overestimated. The day before, former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov said that Ukraine has the technical capability creation of such weapons and could become a nuclear power within 2-3 years. Russia, as stated earlier by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, is taking all measures to prevent this. According to him, Kyiv's irresponsible statements about nuclear weapons are not empty bravado, the country still has Soviet nuclear technologies and means of delivering such weapons. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early on Thursday, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces are only attacking military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, there are casualties on both sides. Ukraine nuclear weapons