Alexander Shulgin, Permanent Representative of Russia to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), said that there was no reaction from the OPCW to the data of the Russian Ministry of Defense that Kiev was preparing provocations using chemical weapons. Words lead the way DEA News.
“There was no response from the OPCW in line with the data on these preparations,” the diplomat said at the fifth session of the conference to review the operation of the Chemical Weapons Convention in The Hague.
According to Shulgin, since December 2021, the Russian Federation has been warning the UN and OPCW about the preparations for chemical provocation in Ukraine, providing facts that the regime of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky used chemically hazardous substances for this purpose. provocation.
He emphasized that the sabotage at the Sumykhimprom plant in Sumy, Ukraine in March last year and the sabotage at the Azot chemical plant (Severodonetsk, May 2022) are evidence of such provocations. As a result of both events, a large number of toxic compounds were released into the atmosphere.
Previously at the Russian Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine declarationThat Kiev is preparing a provocation in the Sumy region, imitating the use of artillery ammunition containing poisonous substances by the Russian Armed Forces.