It would concern the chemical BZ, which is on the banned list of chemical weapons. Kirillov talks about “large-scale provocations” using the military psychotropic poisoning agent BZ. According to the general, a train carrying chemicals, “accompanied by a group of foreigners and under the supervision of the Ukrainian military and intelligence services,” arrived in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on February 10.
According to RIA Novosti, the chemicals “causing acute psychoses and hallucinations” were loaded onto American armored vehicles and sent to the “line of contact”. The Russian Defense Ministry also said that NATO is preparing to supply Ukraine with 600,000 doses of the antidote itself.
Kirillov said the United States “is counting on the inability of the international community to mount an effective investigation into the provocation…”. Russia will be to blame, the general said, noting that the BZ is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The substance causes acute psychosis, disorientation, hallucinations and memory problems.
The general also said that the US military used BZ extensively not only during the Vietnam War, but also during military conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Kirillov stressed that in the event of a chemical weapons provocation, Russia would identify and punish “the real culprits”.
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