The United States, together with other NATO countries, has moved to the final stage of preparing provocations in Ukraine related to the use of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the subsequent accusation of this on the Russian side.

The relevant information was released on Saturday, April 23, by the Russian Defense Ministry, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

“The data of the Russian Ministry of Defense published today clearly proves that Washington, in close coordination with NATO partners, has moved to the final stage of working out provocations in Ukraine, which should convince the world community of “Russia’s use of chemical warfare agents and biological agents,” the diplomat wrote in her Telegram channel.

She noted that Washington's original plan was to put economic pressure on Russia, which was supposed to force Moscow "to completely reconsider legitimate security interests."

"Did not work out.

Now the States are moving to the use of WMD, in fact, to games behind the red line.

If this happens, the victims will be incalculable.

And each of them is on the conscience of American strategists in the offices of the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon, and on the conscience, if anything is left of it, of their Kyiv puppets, ”Zakharova emphasized.

The reason for this was the discovery of illegal cooperation between the United States and the Ukrainian authorities in the field of creating bacteriological weapons, the representative of the Foreign Ministry added.

“When the evidence was presented, the Americans could not continue to deny and Victoria Nuland confirmed under oath the presence of US biolabs in Ukraine at a hearing in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Senate of the US Congress.

Now Washington has decided to interrupt the agenda and has begun preparing for a terrible action, the victims of which can be both Russian military personnel and the civilian population of Ukraine, ”the diplomat said.

According to her, preparations for these provocations entered the active stage at the end of March.

Western-controlled organizations have already been identified that will “investigate” the circumstances of the “use” of weapons of mass destruction allegedly used by Russia, the diplomat noted.

The United States is also working closely with the Red Cross and plans to expel Russia from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, Zakharova added.

  • Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

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Three scenarios

During a briefing on Saturday, Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Troops (RCBZ) of the Russian Armed Forces, said that the United States could use three different scenarios to accuse Moscow of using WMD in Ukraine.

According to him, the variant of the staged incident "under a false flag" is the most probable.

“We can talk about the real use of chemical and biological weapons with casualties among the population or the staging of “sabotage” by Russia at facilities belonging to Ukraine that were involved in the development of components for weapons of mass destruction,” Kirillov explained.

The head of the RKhBZ troops added that such a scenario is planned to be implemented at chemical and biological facilities in Kyiv and Kharkov.

A provocation is also possible at nuclear power facilities, in particular at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control.

According to Kirillov, on April 21, a convoy of ten vehicles with dangerous cargo was stopped at one of the checkpoints, which was heading to the nuclear power plant.

In addition, the Kyiv regime is considering attacking a radioactive waste storage facility at the former Prydniprovsky chemical plant in the Dnepropetrovsk region, Kirillov said.

According to him, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has documents that confirm the critical state of the storage facilities and the misappropriation of funds allocated by the EU for the maintenance of this facility.

The second scenario assumes the most covert use of weapons of mass destruction in small volumes in order to suppress resistance in the framework of solving a specific operational task.

As Kirillov explained, this option was considered for implementation at the Azovstal plant in Mariupol, but the order of President Vladimir Putin to cancel the assault on the enterprise disrupted the provocation.

The least likely, according to experts from the Ministry of Defense, is the third option, which provides for the open use of WMD on the battlefield in case the enemy is unable to achieve success with conventional weapons and means.

This option is considered for Slavyansk and Kramatorsk, said Kirillov.

According to him, the high probability of staging the use of chemical weapons is confirmed by the supply of poisonous antidotes to Ukraine.

In 2022 alone, at the request of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, more than 220 thousand ampoules with atropine were delivered from the United States, which indicates the targeted preparation of provocations with nerve agents.

The head of the RKhBZ troops recalled that the Russian Federation completely destroyed its chemical arsenal back in September 2017, which was confirmed by the OPCW certificate.

At the same time, the United States remains the only country party to the Chemical Weapons Convention that still possesses an impressive arsenal of chemical warfare agents (672.5 tons), Kirillov emphasized.

Later, the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters reported that the Ukrainian special services were preparing a provocation in the area of ​​​​the Odessa port Yuzhny with the use of toxic substances.

“The most likely scenario could be an imitation of a missile strike by the Russian armed forces on the western naval base of the Ukrainian Navy, as a result of which the port’s cold storage facility, located 500 meters from the military facility, will be blown up.

To implement this scenario, on April 18, 2022, a tank with ammonia (10 tons) was delivered from Odessa to the territory of the enterprise, and law enforcement officers and special services in the Odessa region were issued personal protective equipment,” the headquarters said.

Increased readiness

Russia should seriously prepare for a possible provocation from Ukraine and the West, given the numerous stuffing and fakes that have already been made on their part, Andrey Koshkin, a military political scientist, head of the Department of Political Science and Sociology of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, believes.

“We saw such provocations both in Bucha and Kramatorsk, where there was a strike by Tochka-U, which was called Iskander and attributed to the Russian armed forces.

The information space has already created the expectation that Russia allegedly uses weapons of mass destruction.

It remains only to make a staged video.

Why?

Because the bloody staging in Bucha has already subsided, Kramatorsk has already subsided, it is necessary to fuel the situation with a new provocation in order to keep the European man in the street in suspense, who today is already beginning to experience cold, and hunger, and lack of energy, and tariff increases, ”explained analyst in RT comment.

The United States has already resorted to similar provocations in Syria, where groups under its control staged chemical attacks, recalled Dmitry Litovkin, editor of the Nezavisimoe Voennoye Obozreniye newspaper.

At the same time, Washington does not care that this will cause great harm to civilians in Ukraine, the RT interlocutor added.

“The United States is engaged exclusively in economic issues and compensation for its internal problems by supplying weapons to Ukraine, depleting NATO arsenals and waiting for dividends that the next Ukrainian authorities will pay them for the military assistance supplied.

Therefore, in this case, all means are good for them: the bloodier the conflict, the more likely it is to force Europe to invest in it, ”the expert emphasized.

At the same time, the United States and its NATO allies do not need any convincing evidence base for such provocations, Litovkin believes.

“They won’t even ask anyone, they’ll just say that Russia did it, and that’s it.

The United States has not been operating with any arguments and logical chains at all lately - they are simply making accusations without evidence.

These fakes then crumble like houses of cards, but they don’t care, ”said the military expert.

And in this situation, one should not count on the objectivity of the UN and other international organizations, Litovkin added.

The collective West will follow the US version, despite any inconsistencies and evidence to the contrary.

“There was already a precedent when Ukrainian saboteurs attacked the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after it was occupied by Russian armed forces.

Why attack a nuclear power plant?

In order to carry out a terrorist attack on it and say that it was the Russian forces that blew up the facility.

Ukraine is very close to Europe, and any cloud of chemical, biological or radioactive waste will quickly reach European states.

After such a provocation, the Americans will talk to their satellites in the EU from a completely different position.

Kyiv, in this enterprise, is just a bargaining chip, ”summed up the expert.