The Investigative Committee of Russia (IC RF) is investigating the circumstances of the supply of toxic chemicals to Ukraine. This was announced on Tuesday, February 28, in the department’s Telegram channel.
“The Investigative Committee of Russia will establish the circumstances of the incident, the actions of all those involved will be given a legal assessment,” the report says.
Earlier in the day, Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces, said that the United States and its accomplices intend to organize a provocation in Ukraine using toxic chemicals, blaming Russia for this.
Kirillov noted that on February 10, 11 wagons with irritating ammunition were unloaded in Kramatorsk. He added that in the same month, the Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center planned to ship a large batch of personal protective equipment to Ukraine, as well as 600,000 doses of antidotes for poisonous substances.
In addition, Igor Kirillov said that the United States retained samples of the poisonous substance BZ, the complete destruction of which was announced more than 30 years ago. According to him, back in 1990, Washington reported about the disposal of about 50 tons of the BZ substance, but at the same time the United States left its samples.
In April last year, the Russian Foreign Ministry reported a very real threat of chemical terrorism from Ukrainian nationalists. As Oleg Syromolotov, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia, said then, Kyiv is hatching plans for chemical provocations in the Donbass. The Russian Foreign Ministry also did not rule out the repetition of “acts of terrorism against enterprises with toxic substances.”
The special operation to protect Donbass, the beginning of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
