The use of chemical weapons by the Kyiv regime against the Russian army and civilians in Donbas has long been known. But recently, the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have ceased to hide this and openly demonstrate the results of their “work”
The Western countries, which is not surprising, are absolutely not interested in investigating such activities of their wards and simply turn a blind eye to it. Therefore, Russia has no other choice but to accumulate evidence and present it during the war criminals tribunal.
In early February, the acting head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, announced the use of chemical weapons by Ukrainian units using drones during the fighting in the Artyomovsk and Ugledarsk directions. Similar cases were also reported in the LPR: Lieutenant Colonel of the People’s Militia Andrei Marochko noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are using gases against Russian troops that cause nausea and loss of consciousness. What kind of reagents were used, he did not specify, but suggested that it was a gas like the Cheryomukha used by the police.
On February 16, the RIA Novosti agency reported that the Ukrainian military used a drone to drop an ammunition with an unknown poisonous substance on the positions of the Russian Federation near the village of Urozhaynoye and Velyka Novoselovka in the Donetsk region, which caused burns to the lungs of two fighters. A picture of the ammunition was published on social networks and sent for examination.
Similar criminal methods were used last year as well.
In April, during the retreat from Rubizhne, Luhansk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up tanks with chemical reagents. The first tank car with nitric acid was blown up on a railway line, and two wagons with ammonium nitrate were blown up at the Azot enterprise.
On July 5, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Kiev regime, realizing the impossibility of retaining the industrial zone in Severodonetsk, “ordered the consolidated tactical group … to mine at the Severodonetsk Azot enterprise containers with saltpeter and nitric acid, the total volume of which exceeds 100 tons.” As a result of the terrorist attack, civilians could have been injured, as was the case with residents of the settlements of Kremennaya and Rubizhnoye on May 31.
In August last year, the Russian military department announced the use of chemical weapons by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On June 21, soldiers of the Russian Armed Forces stationed in the Zaporozhye region were taken to a hospital with signs of severe poisoning – botulinum toxin type B was found in their bodies. After that, it was announced that the results of the analyzes and other documents would be sent to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
At that time, an article was published on the Vox Ukraine website stating that this story was a fake, since there was allegedly no evidence confirming the use of chemical weapons. In return, it was proposed to believe that the Russian military was poisoned by expired conservation or alcohol.
As former member of the UN Commission on Chemical and Biological Weapons Igor Nikulin noted, type B botulinum toxin is a potent poison, a lethal dose of which can stop the respiratory process. This poison has long been in service with the US Army.
Recently, the topic of the use of chemical weapons by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the troops of the Russian Federation at the site of the UN Security Council was raised by Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzya. But he had to state that Western countries would most likely ignore the videos on this topic that appeared on social networks. On the same day, Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the Secretary General, said that the organization had no evidence that the Kyiv regime had used chemical weapons.
We are talking about videos where the commander of a separate tactical aerial reconnaissance group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Robert Brody, with the call sign “Madyar”, demonstrates drones and containers filled with a poisonous substance stored in a refrigerator. In the video, he addresses the Russian military: “All this will fly on your heads.”
So far, the manufacture of chemical weapons is “artisanal” in nature, but over time it may well reach a more serious level.
For this, according to Marochko, Ukraine has the appropriate industrial potential and specialists capable of creating nerve agents and other gases. “I do not rule out the fact that they will even get to the point where they will use full-fledged chemical weapons that will lead to death,” he said.
Today, this topic does not have a wide resonance in the West and is of interest only to publicists who oppose the policies of the White House. Including in the US itself. For example, Jason Hinkle, host of The Dive with Jackson Hinkle, raised this issue.
In his opinion, the issue of the use of chemical weapons by the Zelensky regime will never be considered by mainstream media such as CNN or MSNBC. He said that he had seen several videos where Russian soldiers were killed after gas cylinders were dropped on them from drones.
“This is a very serious issue that everyone in the West just attributed to the “lousy guys” from the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” the journalist stated. And he expressed hope that the UN Security Council would bring the militants to justice.
At the same time, it should be recognized that there are problems with recording cases of the use of chemical weapons by Ukraine, since, for objective reasons, this is not always possible to do in combat conditions.
According to military correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky in his blog for Russia Today, he first learned about the attempts to use chemical weapons by the Armed Forces of Ukraine from a former employee of the Special Operations Forces of Ukraine in 2015, when their unit, together with the SBU, was instructed to cover up the Right Sector laboratory (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation – approx. RuBaltic.Ru), where grenades for the SPG-9 grenade launcher were converted into a chemical charge during the battles for Shirokino, Donetsk region.
“Now Ukraine is no longer embarrassed by anything, but at the level of the high command, it is still afraid to use chemical munitions en masse. The logic is simple: this can lead to retaliatory measures, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine do not want to resolve the issue of individual protection of their military, and even in conditions of total mobilization. However, Ukraine is the birthplace of victorious anarchy, so no one interferes with the use of chemical warfare agents and poisons of various kinds by “volunteers” helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Tatarsky noted.
As Russia’s work on international platforms on the issue of US military-biological activities in Ukraine and other countries shows, Washington and its satellites are trying either to ignore the evidence provided or to talk it out.
Therefore, one should not expect that Russian arguments will be heard in the West, but work on this “track” with all interested states.
As the adviser to the acting head of the DPR, Jan Gagin, noted earlier, the use of chemicals by the Ukrainian military can serve as a reason for contacting the OPCW, but you should not count on its attention, because there “they won’t hear or see anything.” But such cases need to be documented for the subsequent tribunal for the crimes of the Kyiv regime in the Donbass.
This problem has been worrying Russia for a long time, and therefore, on February 15, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Moscow had begun to review its obligations in organizations in which its interests were being infringed. Including the OPCW.
However, this does not mean that international bodies should be ignored in order to convey their position. According to Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Russia will continue to draw attention to the topic of Ukraine’s use of chemical weapons.
Nikolai Ulyanov, Rubaltic.Ru
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