Pentagon. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 14The Pentagon said that the planned supply of chemical, biological and radiation protection equipment to Ukraine is not based on specific information about the possibility of using weapons of mass destruction in the conflict zone. U.S. armed forces.» The Ukrainians asked for this … Is this based on a specific, credible threat of use in a certain quarter, area? No. But this certainly comes from the long-term understanding that we have that the Russians have the potential for the use of such weapons,» Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters. The Russian Embassy in the United States said the day before that Russian troops do not and cannot have chemical warfare agents at their disposal, since Russia destroyed all stocks of chemical weapons back in 2017, and the words of State Department spokesman Ned Price that Russia could use chemical weapons in Ukraine are not supported by evidence. Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that documents received from employees of Ukrainian biological laboratories testify to Kyiv’s plans to use drones capable of spraying deadly substances. A network of more than than 30 biological laboratories working in the interests of the Pentagon, Igor Kirillov, head of the RF Armed Forces, said earlier. Everything for the continuation of the US military biological program has already been removed from Ukraine after the start of the Russian special military operation, he said. In connection with the facts of US military biological activities in Ukraine, the Russian Federation does not exclude the launch of a consultation mechanism under the Convention on the Prohibition of Biological and Toxin Weapons, the official said Representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova
