“On Iraqi territory in 2003-2011, the United States identified more than 4.5 thousand aerial bombs, artillery and rocket-propelled chemical munitions containing mustard gas and sarin, some of which were disposed of locally without OPCW authorization, and others were exported to the United States, their further fate is unknown ", he noted.
Kirillov also noted that until 2018, the United States reported 460 metric tons of unidentified chemical agents in annual declarations, which is about 2% of the total stockpile.
“According to our data, we are talking about compounds belonging to the class of amidide fluorophosphates, better known to the American public under the name Novichok,” said a representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Earlier, Kirillov said that the United States still stores highly toxic reaction masses from chemical weapons.