Kirillov: Washington is planning with its allies to carry out a provocation in Ukraine using toxic chemicals

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The Commander of the Radiological, Chemical and Biological Protection Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, announced today that the United States, in cooperation with its partners, plans to carry out a provocation in Ukraine using toxic chemicals, and to hold Russia responsible for the incident.

Sputnik quoted Kirillov as saying in a media briefing: “On February 22, an influential American non-governmental organization held a conference on the events in Ukraine.” During this event, the former US ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, made a statement in which he said in particular: “ Russian forces are planning to use chemical weapons in the area of ​​special military operations, and we, in turn, consider that this information speaks of the intention of the United States itself and its accomplices to carry out a provocation in Ukraine using toxic chemicals.

Kirillov pointed out that Westerners expect that under the conditions of hostilities, the international community will not be able to organize an effective investigation in the event of such a provocation, pointing out that in the event of a provocation by the West using toxic chemicals in Ukraine, the real perpetrators will be identified by the Ministry of Defense. Russian defense and punishment.

Kirillov explained that a train arrived in Kramatorsk on the 10th of February, carrying a shipment of chemicals inside one of the wagons, and was accompanied by a group of foreigners, and therefore these facts speak of the United States' attempt to carry out large-scale provocations in Ukraine using lethal toxic effects.

Kirillov revealed that a shipment of fragmentation ammunition was delivered under the disguise of building materials to Ukraine to carry out the provocation, while NATO is preparing to supply the Kiev regime with 600,000 doses of antidote to toxic substances, indicating that an American armored vehicle loaded with chemicals advanced to the contact line in Donbass to participate in this provocation that is taking place. setting him up.

Kirillov added, “The West regularly announces the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction by Russia, but this has already been implemented more than once by the United States itself,” noting that part of the components of the thermobaric munitions used against Russian forces in Ukraine were produced in the Czech Republic. .

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