"On Friday, we received a document from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry concerning accusations from Russia of storing nuclear waste near the Russian border and a note from the Russian Foreign Ministry," an Eastern Ukrainian news agency quoted Zinovy Guzar, the deputy head of the local administration, as saying.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a note dated October 24 that nuclear waste is being stored in certain mines at Sverdlovsk, Antratsit, and Krasny Luch, and demanded that the waste be moved, Guzar said.
Guzar said the Dolzhanskaya mine (at Sverdlovsk) is still an active business and that all the others listed had been closed and flooded.
"I hope the author of these provocations is found. Someone is attempting to create problems in Russian-Ukrainian relations," he said.
The Lugansk regional administration had asked the Ukrainian intelligence service to find the source of the falsified information, Guzar said.
