NATO logo in front of Brussels headquartersMOSCOW, Mar 24NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the countries of the alliance intend to provide Ukraine with protective equipment and means to identify chemical and biological attacks that are allegedly possible from Russia. «We share information with them (Ukraine — ed.). We also intend to provide some protective equipment , technical means capable of detecting chemical and biological attacks,» Stoltenberg said in an interview with CNN. He stressed that the West considers the use of such weapons to be a direct violation of international law and will change the nature of the current conflict in Ukraine. Biden admitted NATO intervention in the situation in Ukraine Earlier, Biden said that the Russian authorities accuse the United States and Ukraine of possessing chemical and biological weapons, because they are considering the use of these types. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called US statements that Russia could allegedly use chemical and biological weapons as malicious insinuations. Ryabkov, speaking of chemical and biological weapons, noted that «we have neither.» The Pentagon said earlier this week that the United States does not have data indicating that Russia will allegedly use biological or chemical weapons in Ukraine.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/6089027e7fad53f5b7967a82dbb2ede1.jpg" />The Chinese Ministry of Defense accused the United States of slander because of UkraineMajor General Igor Konashenkov, an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, earlier warned that Ukrainian nationalists could prepare a provocation using poisonous substances and attribute their actions to Russian forces. In addition, the Russian embassy in Washington noted that Russia «is reliably aware that Ukrainian radical groups under the control of representatives of the American special services have prepared several possible scenarios for the use of toxic chemicals to carry out provocations against civilians» in order to blame Russia for this. The embassy stressed that this information «cannot but cause serious concern, given that the United States has not yet destroyed the national stockpiles of chemical warfare agents.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president stressed.
