London warns Russia that it will suffer "international retaliation" if it uses chemical weapons in Ukraine

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Britain's Under Secretary of State for the Armed Forces, James Heappey, has warned that

will face "international retaliation" if it uses chemical weapons in the

Speaking on BBC radio, Heappey avoided commenting on whether NATO would be willing to impose an "exclusion zone" or provide fighters to Ukraine in the event of a Russian chemical attack.

"The United States has done well to reveal and publicize the information that comes from the intelligence services," stressed Heappey, referring to the alert launched the day before by Jen Psaki, spokesman for President

"Russia has made false accusations about alleged US biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine," Psaki warned.

"And Russia has a long tradition of leveling accusations against the West for acts that they themselves are perpetrating."

The British James Heappey picked up the witness and also assured that President Putin

and in the face of chemical attacks perpetrated by the Bashar Asad regime with Russian support.

According to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, chemical weapons were used in Syria on at least

A BBC investigation, however, raised the number of possible attacks to 106, mainly with sarin and chlorine gas.

Although the number of victims of chemical weapons in

is estimated at around 2,000 (of the more than 350,000 people who died in the ten years of conflict), the violation of the international treaty signed by 193 countries was once considered a "red line by then President

Trigger to NATO involvement

The question now is whether a possible use of chemical weapons in the war in Ukraine could be the trigger for a direct or indirect involvement of NATO, which

demanded by Ukrainian President

for consider that it could lead to an escalation of the conflict.

"President Putin needs to be clear that the use of chemical weapons is the most despicable thing anyone can imagine," warned James Heappey.

"We have all seen the horrific images on television of attacks on a hospital, but they are nothing compared to the suffering and devastation that chemical weapons can cause."

"I can't pinpoint where the 'red line' is, but I think President Putin needs to know that when other countries have used chemical weapons, they have faced international retaliation," added the British undersecretary for the armed forces.

"American intelligence has done well to declassify this information so that Putin knows that we know what he is considering."

The joint response from Washington and London comes as a withering response to accusations by the Russian foreign spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, alleging that the United States has launched a chemical weapons program with 26 laboratories involved in the "manufacturing of dangerous viruses". like anthrax or cholera.

In parallel, the Russian Defense Ministry alleged that

in Kharkov, Ukraine's second largest city, with the intention of falsely accusing Russia of using biological weapons.

Russia used the same "false flags" to justify the invasion of the Donbas region at the start of the war.

China has joined the dialectical fire on account of chemical weapons by siding with Moscow.

"The US biological labs in Ukraine have created great concern," said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian.

"According to what has been published by various media, these laboratories store large amounts of pathogens. Russia, during its military operations, has discovered that

.

Zhao Lijian has gone even further and has directly requested the United States to "reveal the information about the laboratories as soon as possible to know what types of viruses they have been investigating."

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