Stockholm: Swedish TV is reporting that a prosecutor is investigating claims that Russia dumped radioactive waste in the Baltic Sea in the early 1990s.
Prosecutor Mats Palm told national broadcaster SVT he started the probe on Thursday after the network aired a report saying Russia`s military dropped radioactive waste and chemical weapons off the island of Gotland, in Sweden`s economic zone.
The report claims the material came from a military base in Latvia and that the Russians wanted to get rid of it as they withdrew from the Baltic countries following the Soviet collapse in 1991. It cites classified Swedish military reports and former intelligence sources.
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