Russia Says Ukraine Might Be Plotting False-Flag Provocation With Use of Chemical Weapons
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia launched its military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Western countries responded by imposing comprehensive sanctions against Moscow, while also ramping up their military support for Kiev. Russia and Ukraine held a few rounds of talks in the early phase of the conflict, but the negotiation eventually stalled.
Ukraine might be plotting a provocation with the use of Western-made toxins to accuse Russia of using chemical weapons, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday.
"[The ministry] is not ruling out that yet another anti-Russian provocation is in the making with the use of Western-made toxic substances, in order to then initiate a new campaign at UN structures and world media accusing our country of the allegedly deliberate use of chemical weapons," Zakharova told a press conference.
In late August, the Russian Armed Forces said that the Ukrainian military used phosphorus shells, which are prohibited by the Geneva Convention, in the Zaporozhye direction.
In addition, in late November, the head of the Russian delegation to the session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Kirill Lysogorsky said that Russia has undeniable evidence of US complicity in the supply of toxic chemicals to Ukraine. He added that such toxic chemicals, including riot control agents, are transferred to the Ukrainian armed forces and foreign mercenaries fighting on the side of the Kiev regime.
