A Russian navy official has stated the U.S. is getting ready "provocations" so it might probably accuse Moscow of utilizing weapons of mass destruction.
Information company Tass reported that Igor Kirillov stated the alleged American plan was in response to the "successes" Russian troops had within the invasion of Ukraine.
"The Russian Ministry of Protection has details about the preparation by america of America of provocations to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of utilizing chemical, organic or tactical nuclear weapons," he stated.
He advised a press convention that "in 2022 alone, on the request of the Ministry of Well being of Ukraine, greater than 220,000 ampoules with atropine [small vials of medicine] had been delivered from america."
Atropine is used to deal with sure forms of nerve agent and pesticide poisonings. It's unclear the place the deliveries had gone.
He stated the U.S. has developed not less than three eventualities to accuse Russia, with provocations most certainly in Kharkiv, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia, the place there's a nuclear plant, state information outlet Sputnik reported.
The U.S. State Division had already decided how an investigation into WMD use would play out, he added.
Kirillov, who's head of Russian military's radiation, chemical and organic protection forces, stated that because the begin of the Ukraine battle, western leaders "repeatedly make provocative statements about the potential of Russia utilizing weapons of mass destruction."
He then referred to feedback the U.S. Everlasting Consultant to the U.N., Linda Thomas-Greenfield, had made on February 27 that Russia was planning to make use of chemical and organic weapons in a "false flag" assault in Ukraine.
She had been responding to Russian claims that the U.S. funded bioweapons analysis in Ukraine involving the harmful infections utilizing migratory birds.
The claims made by her Russian counterpart on the U.N., Vasily Nebenzya, have been dismissed internationally and by consultants.
However Kirillov stated the U.S. was drawing from a playbook it used within the Iraq Battle in 2003 when then Secretary of State Colin Powell produced "a check tube with washing powder." He stated this was used as "a pretext for the invasion of Iraq and the dying of just about half one million residents."
Kirillov additionally made claims about sarin assaults used within the Syrian battle in 2017 which Damascus and Moscow closely disputed, however led to U.S. missile assaults on Sharyat airfield.
"Nobody has been held accountable for these provocations," stated Kirrillov.
Ukraine has beforehand stated Russia makes accusations of false flag operations that are a projection of what Moscow needs to do. In March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated: "If you wish to know what Russia's plans are, take a look at what Russia accuses others of."
Kirillov's feedback come after Russia was accused of utilizing chemical weapons within the southeastern metropolis of Mariupol on April 11. The Azov Regiment, a unit of the Nationwide Guard of Ukraine, claimed the chemical substances had been dropped by way of an unmanned aerial car. Newsweek couldn't independently confirm the claims.
Newsweek has contacted the U.S. State Division and the Ukrainian overseas ministry for remark.
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