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Russia to go to UN with its claims of US-backed biological weapon plot
Russia is preparing to put before the UN unfounded claims of a US-orchestrated biological weapon plot in Ukraine, as the Kremlin announced 16,000 foreign fighters from the Middle East would be sent to the eastern European country.
The UN security council is meeting on Friday at Russia’s request to discuss Moscow’s claim that the US-backed laboratories in Ukraine were working on biological weapons to target Russians. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, along with western military intelligence, fears Russia is preparing the ground for its own chemical weapon attack.
"Allegedly, we are preparing a chemical attack,” he said in a video address on Thursday. “This makes me really worried, because we’ve been repeatedly convinced: if you want to know Russia’s plans, look at what Russia accuses others of.”
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Meanwhile, a UN spokesperson said there were credible reports of Russians using cluster munitions in populated areas. Cluster munitions, which scatter small bombs over a large area, are banned by more than 100 countries, including the UK, but not Russia, Ukraine or the US.
More than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine and a further two million are internally displaced within the country, the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said on Friday.
The grim toll for Ukrainian civilians comes amid growing fears that Russia could stage a chemical attack, as senior Russian officials recycled old conspiracy theories about alleged western-made biological weapons.
The head of the Russian military’s radiation, chemical and biological protection troops, Igor Kirillov, said on Thursday that US-backed labs in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa were working on dangerous pathogens, custom-designed to target Russians and other Slavs. According to Russian-state media, Kirillov alleged the US planned to exploit Ukraine’s “unique geographical position” by sending migratory birds carrying deadly diseases into Russia.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, made a similar claim on Thursday, alleging that US-backed labs in Ukraine were working to “develop ethnically targeted biological weapons”. The director of the CIA, William Burns, told the US Senate intelligence committee that Russia may be laying the groundwork for a chemical or biological attack of its own, which it would then blame on the US or Ukraine in a “false flag operation”.
“This is something, as all of you know very well, is very much a part of Russia’s playbook,” he said. “They’ve used these weapons against their own citizens, they’ve at least encouraged the use in Syria and elsewhere, so it’s something we take very seriously.”
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Russia is preparing to put before the UN unfounded claims of a US-orchestrated biological weapon plot in Ukraine, as the Kremlin announced 16,000 foreign fighters from the Middle East would be sent to the eastern European country.
The UN security council is meeting on Friday at Russia’s request to discuss Moscow’s claim that the US-backed laboratories in Ukraine were working on biological weapons to target Russians. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, along with western military intelligence, fears Russia is preparing the ground for its own chemical weapon attack.
"Allegedly, we are preparing a chemical attack,” he said in a video address on Thursday. “This makes me really worried, because we’ve been repeatedly convinced: if you want to know Russia’s plans, look at what Russia accuses others of.”
(...)
Meanwhile, a UN spokesperson said there were credible reports of Russians using cluster munitions in populated areas. Cluster munitions, which scatter small bombs over a large area, are banned by more than 100 countries, including the UK, but not Russia, Ukraine or the US.
More than 2.5 million people have fled Ukraine and a further two million are internally displaced within the country, the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said on Friday.
The grim toll for Ukrainian civilians comes amid growing fears that Russia could stage a chemical attack, as senior Russian officials recycled old conspiracy theories about alleged western-made biological weapons.
The head of the Russian military’s radiation, chemical and biological protection troops, Igor Kirillov, said on Thursday that US-backed labs in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa were working on dangerous pathogens, custom-designed to target Russians and other Slavs. According to Russian-state media, Kirillov alleged the US planned to exploit Ukraine’s “unique geographical position” by sending migratory birds carrying deadly diseases into Russia.
The Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, made a similar claim on Thursday, alleging that US-backed labs in Ukraine were working to “develop ethnically targeted biological weapons”. The director of the CIA, William Burns, told the US Senate intelligence committee that Russia may be laying the groundwork for a chemical or biological attack of its own, which it would then blame on the US or Ukraine in a “false flag operation”.
“This is something, as all of you know very well, is very much a part of Russia’s playbook,” he said. “They’ve used these weapons against their own citizens, they’ve at least encouraged the use in Syria and elsewhere, so it’s something we take very seriously.”
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