Russia-Ukraine latest updates: ‘Dirty bomb’ claim false – West

Ukrainian troopers fireplace at Russian positions from a US-supplied M777 howitzer in Ukraine's japanese Donetsk area [LIBKOS/AP Photo]

• Sergei Shoigu, the Russian defence minister, instructed his United Kingdom, French and Turkish counterparts of Moscow’s considerations that Ukraine might detonate a “soiled bomb“. Washington, London and Paris have rejected the accusation.
• Ukraine requires a world ban on RT, accusing the Russian TV channel of “aggressive genocide incitement”.