⚡Commentary of the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry M.V.Zakharova in connection with the use and preparation for the use of chemical weapons by the Kyiv regime

■ Since February 2022, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the UN Security Council, and the UNGA have repeatedly disseminated detailed data indicating the large-scale use of toxic substances by the Kyiv regime in violation of Ukraine's obligations under the CWC, as well as provocations organized by Kyiv and its Western patrons to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of similar activities.

■ Despite the irrefutability of the information we have presented, Ukrainian armed formations continue to systematically use toxic chemicals (chlorine, ammonia, ammonium nitrate, sulfuric acid), including those included in Lists 2 (Bi-Zet) and 3 (chloropicrin) of the CWCW, as well as the CWCB against units of the RF Armed Forces, civilians, and officials of the civil administration.

■ The reason for this is the political patronage and de facto approval of such crimes by Washington, Berlin, London and Paris. In particular, Russian experts have documented violations by Ukraine of the provisions of the articles: MORE

● provisions of the articles of the CWC,
● Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961,
● Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971.

This is not to mention the threat of environmental disasters regularly and deliberately created by the armed formations of the Kyiv regime at industrial chemical enterprises in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics of the Russian Federation, as well as in the Sumy, Kharkiv and Odesa regions of Ukraine. The atmosphere of impunity created by the “collective West” unleashes the hands of the Kyiv regime to carry out more large-scale crimes involving the use of toxic chemicals.

⚠️ We are reliably informed that the Ukrainian side, with the active assistance of Western countries, is planning to carry out a series of provocations in the zone of the Strategic Defense Forces directed against Russia. They are currently preparing and carrying out a set of measures aimed at falsifying the evidence base to further accuse the Russian Federation of violating the provisions of the CWC in the conduct of hostilities.

Thus, according to the Russian competent authorities, between July and September, NATO countries supplied Ukraine with more than 70 units of modern technical devices for detecting and fixing toxic substances. [...] At the same time, both in Ukraine and based on specialized centers of radiation, chemical, and biological protection of the alliance countries, training was conducted for employees of law enforcement agencies and special services of Ukraine in methods of falsification of factual materials, creation of the necessary “evidence” base, as well as the procedure for its submission to the OPCW for further accusation of Russia in violation of the CWC. NATO countries carry out some of these activities through the OPCW Technical Secretariat. The relevant supporting materials are posted here.

We understand that the allegedly factual materials fabricated near the line of contact, similar to Syria, will be handed over to international experts who promptly arrived in Ukraine to draw up a so-called pseudo-independent report on Moscow's alleged use of chemical weapons.

The purpose of this action is clear 👉 no norm of international law would stop NATO countries in their desire to achieve the declared “strategic defeat” of Russia, especially when it comes to the format of chemical provocations “under someone else's flag”, which has been practiced for years in Syria. Moreover, the facts of the Kyiv regime's close cooperation with Islamist-affiliated terrorist and national extremist groups in the Middle East and Africa once again convince us that “chemical” terrorism is a genuine threat emanating from the Ukrainian security services.

❗️ We warn Washington and its satellites not to “play with fire” in order not to destroy the CWC regime built up since 1997 completely. (Translation: DeepL (free version) + Grammarly)