View of the building of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The HagueMOSCOW, Mar 9 Russia will send Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons documents on a possible provocation of Kyiv with the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, said Russian Permanent Representative to the OPCW Alexander Shulgin. Earlier, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that Ukrainian nationalists could be preparing a provocation using poisonous substances for prosecution Russia in the alleged use of chemical weapons. According to him, on the night of March 9, Ukrainian nationalists brought about 80 tons of ammonia to the village of Zolochiv northwest of Kharkov. As Konashenkov noted, according to the residents who left Zolochiv, the nationalists teach them how to act correctly in case of a chemical attack. status «In relation to what we are now seeing in Ukraine, these are the plans, fears that there will be a chemical provocation. This is a very serious matter. Today, or at least tomorrow morning, we will send the documents to the technical secretariat, ask them to assign them the stamp of a national document of Russia on the 99th session of the sub-council now taking place in The Hague, and we will disseminate this information among all OPCW member states. Let's see how the technical secretariat responds in this situation,» Shulgin said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel. Shulgin also added that the Russian side told the OPCW members about the provocation at the experimental nuclear reactor in Kharkov, which could also be prepared by the Ukrainian side. According to him, Ros this will count on an adequate response to Russian documents.
