According to Kirillov, the West considered three scenarios of provocations using chemical, biological or nuclear weapons in Ukraine for subsequent blaming Russia for this.
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) is the most covert use of weapons of mass destruction in small volumes to suppress the will and the ability to resist in the framework of solving a specific operational task.
Such a scenario was considered at the Azovstal enterprise,” he said.
The order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief to cancel the assault on the enterprise thwarted the plans of the Pentagon.
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the assault on Azovstal in Mariupol would take three to four days.
President Vladimir Putin called the storming of the industrial zone inappropriate and ordered it to be cancelled.
At the same time, he ordered "to block the industrial zone so that" the fly did not fly.