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| Ukrainian Armed Forces Laboratory for Chemical Weapons Production Discovered Near Avdiivka |
| 2024-07-09 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russian military personnel have discovered a Ukrainian Armed Forces laboratory for the production of chemical weapons in one of the DPR settlements near Avdeevka, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, Chief of the Russian Armed Forces' Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Troops, said at a briefing on July 8. A laboratory with chemical equipment was discovered in an industrial zone on the first floor of a destroyed building during an engineering reconnaissance. The premises contained a semi-industrial rotary evaporator, a filtration exhaust system, chemical reactors, and carbon dioxide cylinders. The mobile diagnostic group of the RCB troops discovered shelves with laboratory glassware and reagents, gas masks, including those made in the USA, and a protective suit made in Poland. A detailed analysis of equipment and exhaust fumes revealed the presence of sodium cyanide, sulfuric acid, and trace amounts of cyanide anions in the samples. “The presence of these chemicals clearly indicates that the laboratory that was discovered was producing toxic substances with a general toxic effect,” Kirillov said. He noted that the productivity of the laboratory installation found near Avdeevka is at least three kilograms per day. Its operation requires personnel - two or three people. The lethal inhalation dose for this group of toxic substances is very small and is only 70-80 mg for a person, the head of the RCB troops emphasized. Hydrocyanic acid, a colourless volatile liquid with the odour of bitter almonds, is listed in Schedule III of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The use of this poison is prohibited by Article 1 of the CWC. When inhaled, the acid causes dizziness, increased respiratory rate, vomiting, convulsions, paralysis of the respiratory muscles and death. As Kirillov noted, the Ministry of Defense has received confirmation of numerous facts of the use of toxic chemicals, including hydrocyanic acid, by the Kyiv regime. In May, in the village of Semenovka, located ten kilometers from Avdeevka, the Ukrainian Armed Forces dropped ammunition from a drone, after which the victims developed symptoms characteristic of hydrocyanic acid poisoning - difficulty breathing, vomiting, and a bitter almond taste. Last month, the Kyiv regime's use of hydrocyanic acid was recorded by the military after a Ukrainian drone attacked Grayvoron. The poison was found on fragments of ammunition. In addition, Ukrainian prisoners of war reported laboratories producing chemical weapons. “During his testimony, Ukrainian prisoner of war Sergei Batyr stated that American specialists were involved in their work, as well as the participation of these laboratories in the mass production of kamikaze drones,” Kirillov said. The head of the NBC troops also reported at a briefing that during the special operation, Russian military personnel recorded 400 cases of toxic chemicals being used by the Ukrainian army. Kirillov emphasized that Kiev regularly violates the Chemical Weapons Convention. At the same time, the West and the OPCW plan to accuse Russia of using chemical weapons. The US, Germany, Ukraine and the OPCW technical secretariat are preparing to launch a "special mission". One of the states will initiate an investigation and fabricate evidence. Washington has already allocated about $400,000 for this. More from regnum.ru Defense Ministry: West and OPCW to accuse Russia of using chemical weapons The United States and Germany, together with Kiev and the technical secretariat of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), intend to once again accuse Russia of allegedly using chemical weapons in the area of a special operation. This was stated on July 8 by the Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense (RCBD) Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, at a briefing at the Ministry of Defense. “According to available information, the United States and Germany, together with Ukraine and the OPCW technical secretariat, are preparing to launch a special mission to investigate the so-called facts of the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine with the aim of bringing charges against Russia,” he said. The head of the NBC protection forces specified that for this purpose one of the “independent” states will initiate an investigation and fabricate evidence of the alleged use of toxic chemicals by the Russian side, for which the US has already allocated about 400 thousand dollars. “At the same time, the OPCW received instructions from its Western curators not to respond in any way to the Russian Federation’s statements about Ukraine’s violations of the provisions of the Convention,” Kirillov explained. He noted that Washington and London use the same methods within the framework of the “Mechanism for Conducting Scientific and Technological Assessment” and the “International Mechanism for Cooperation and Assistance” promoted at the site of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (BTWC), which allow them to form an expert opinion on threats to biological security in their own interests. “To this end, it is planned to create channels of influence on international political and scientific research structures involved in the work of the BTWC by allocating grant funding,” the military man added. As reported by the Regnum news agency, Kirillov previously said that during the SVO, more than 400 cases of the Kiev regime using non-lethal toxic chemicals were recorded. He emphasized that Kiev, with the assistance of Western countries, does not limit itself to the use of non-lethal chemicals, actively using such compounds as Bi-Zet, hydrocyanic acid and chlorine cyanide. The head of the NBC Protection troops reported on June 25 that the SBU sent a request to the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in 2023 about the possibilities of studying samples of chemical, radiological, nuclear, and biological weapons. He added that in response, the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences confirmed the conduct of dual-use research under a 2005 agreement between the US Department of Defense and the Ukrainian Ministry of Health. |
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