Waves of Ukrainian drones targeted the massive logistics center outside Moscow overnight. The next morning, it was still ablaze, dark smoke rising into the sky from what was one of Russia’s largest retail warehouses.
Hundreds of miles away, Ukrainian drone crews had barely paused after the night’s work before starting to prepare for another attack.
A small group of soldiers quickly assembled in a sunflower field in southern Ukraine, gathering around 20 small planelike drones laden with explosives, before launching them toward Russia.
The launch by the Ukrainian 413th “Raid” Unmanned Systems Regiment on Sunday morning was observed by a team of Associated Press journalists — a rare glimpse into a rapidly expanding part of Ukraine’s war effort.
Dirty bombs are a meme weapon that would barely cause damage except psychologically. If it spreads everywhere it’s too diluted to do much and if it remains concentrated then the scope is too small to affect many people. Their sole advantage is that people are terrified of them because they are ignorant about how bad they are as weapons. So no a dirty bomb is not spreading across Europe and killing hundreds of thousands of people, a hypothetical dirty bomb is literally nothing compared to the thousands of nuclear tests, Chernobyl release, Kyshtym disaster etc. that did not have death tolls anywhere remotely near a million. Even the actual atomic bomb strikes on populated cities of Japan combined did not kill a million.
This is not to say it would be good for Ukraine to use dirty bombs, absolutely not. Negligible damage to Russia except for causing a massive scare to their people that would be condemned globally makes that a terribly counterproductive option to undertake vs. keeping on bombing refineries and so on.
All I know about dirty bombs comes from that one Tom Clancy novel, and your assessment seems accurate