The accusation is serious and without evidence.
In the midst of growing tension between NATO and Russia on the Ukrainian front, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Choigu said that American mercenaries would prepare a “
provocation
” with “
unknown chemical components
” in the Donetsk region.
Vague and unverifiable, the assertion aims to destabilize information warfare and to stir up trouble.
But it also illustrates the return of the chemical in the panoply of the confrontation.
Since 1997, chemical weapons have been officially banned from conflicts.
But they have made a comeback in the gray area of hybrid clashes.
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The weapon is taboo.
The 26th Conference of the Parties of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (Oiac) thus ended, at the beginning of December, as it had started: in a dialogue of the deaf between the West and Russia, on the dock. .
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