“Staging” in Ukraine
Russia: USA plan provocation with ABC weapons
04/23/2022, 8:12 p.m
Since Russia’s attack on Ukraine, there has also been speculation about the use of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is now accusing the United States of wanting to stage the use of ABC weapons and then wanting to hold Moscow responsible for it. The aim is a “Syrian scenario”.
The Russian leadership accuses the US of a planned provocation to foist Russia with the use of ABC weapons in Ukraine – ABC stands for atomic, biological and chemical. “The staging of the use of weapons of mass destruction serves to accuse Russia of using banned weapons in order to then implement the so-called ‘Syrian scenario’, in which the state in question is economically and politically isolated and also excluded from international organizations such as the UN Security Council will,” said the head of the NBC protection troops, Igor Kirillov.
In the past few weeks, the leaders of Western countries have regularly provoked statements that Russia is planning to use a tactical nuclear bomb, chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine. The aim is to increase pressure on Russia’s allies India and China to comply with the sanctions, Kirillov claimed.
In fact, both Russia and Ukraine and their supporters have been accusing each other of plans to use the internationally banned weapons of mass destruction for weeks. Russia even justified its invasion of Ukraine on February 24 with claims that Ukrainian laboratories were researching biological weapons and that the country was building a nuclear bomb. So far there is no evidence to support the allegations.
Putin had threatened “deterrence forces”.
On the fourth day of the attack, Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin threatened to use nuclear weapons when he put “the Russian army’s deterrent forces on special combat readiness.” These so-called deterrent forces also include nuclear weapons.
Since then, the use of tactical nuclear warheads in Ukraine has been one of the possible scenarios for the further development of this war. A tactical nuclear weapon has a smaller explosive charge than a strategic nuclear weapon and, in theory, is also intended for the battlefield. However, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently stressed in an interview with the television channel India Today that Russia would only use conventional weapons in Ukraine.