Moscow accuses US of preparing a ‘toxic chemicals’ provocation in Ukraine

Moscow: Russia has made a dangerous claim about America. Russia says that America has made a plan to use toxic chemicals in the Ukraine war. The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that America is planning to provoke Russia by doing so. Quoting former US ambassador to Russia John Sullivan, the ministry said, “Russian troops plan to use chemical weapons in the special military operations area.”

Igor Kirillov, head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense troops of Russia’s armed forces, said during a briefing on the claim of the Russian Defense Ministry, according to the report of the news agency Reuters, ‘We will give this information to the United States and their allies on the toxic Perceived as intent on provocation in Ukraine by using chemicals.’ He said, ‘Russia will identify the true culprits and punish them.’

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Putin told Rossiya 1 state television in an interview released on Sunday that Western countries want to disintegrate the former Soviet Union and its fundamental parts. Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and described it as a “special military operation”. He said the aim was to protect Russians, block Kiev’s NATO membership and keep it within Russia’s “sphere of influence”. Ukraine and the West say it is an illegal act of aggression against a country with a democratically elected government and a Jewish president.

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