Combat power and they are using firepower instead. whether that will succeed is up in the air, they are not making very much progress, a stalemate, they will use more firepower and bring in some reinforcements and keep at it. i don t think they are going to keep this a very long. they are running out of precision munitions, taking a lot of casualties also i don t think this is going to go on for months. it could just be weeks. tt on for months. it could ust be weeks. , ., on for months. it could ust be weeks. ,, , on for months. it could ust be weeks. , ., weeks. if you say they don t have the weeks. if you say they don t have the equipment, - weeks. if you say they don t have the equipment, the i have the equipment, the personnel to sustain this, does that make it more likely that putin would use things like chemical weapons? putin would use things like chemicalweapons? it is chemical weapons? it is certainly chemicalweapons? it is certainly possible, - chemicalweapons? it
As a way ofjustifying the possible use of chemical weapons in ukraine by russia. moscow has requested a meeting of the un security council and says without evidence that the us has been developing biological weapons in ukraine. america has dismissed the russian claims as laughable. i m joined now by hamish de bretton gordon, a chemical weapons expert. thank you talking to us. we spoke to you on ukraine cast last night. i ask about these claims by russia. is there any evidence to suggest that there any evidence to suggest that the americans are developing chemical weapons in ukraine? goad chemicalweapons in ukraine? good morninu. i chemicalweapons in ukraine? good morning. ithink chemicalweapons in ukraine? good morning. i think there chemicalweapons in ukraine? good morning. i think there is chemical weapons in ukraine? (emf. morning. i think there is absolutely no evidence at all. this is almost classic playbook from the way that the russians operate in syria over the russi
President zelensky of ukraine says thatis president zelensky of ukraine says that is absolutely nonsensical. the that is absolutely nonsensical. the thatis that is absolutely nonsensical. the that is laughable. do you think they are saying it to justify down the line rush are potentially using some chemical weapons in ukraine? chemicalweapons in ukraine? yeah, of course. chemicalweapons in ukraine? yeah, of course- this chemicalweapons in ukraine? yeah, of course. this is chemicalweapons in ukraine? yeah, of course. this is the chemicalweapons in ukraine? yeah, of course. this is the russian - of course. this is the russian playbook, i think it was so clever that the biden administration, the british government, all of our allies together, shared intelligence in a way that i ve never seen before to expose the various things that the russians were going to do, so that now when they do roll out some silly thing like this, nobody in the world believes them, and so i think we are muc
Done it 48 hours earlier, but since then, he is a transformational figure. he is a great leader in wartime, notjust for the ukrainians, he wartime, notjust forthe ukrainians, he is wartime, notjust for the ukrainians, he is now a conscience of the free world. you ukrainians, he is now a conscience of the free world. of the free world. you mentioned before, of the free world. you mentioned before. not of the free world. you mentioned before, not wishing of the free world. you mentioned before, not wishing to of the free world. you mentioned before, not wishing to dismiss i before, not wishing to dismiss chemical weapons, before, not wishing to dismiss chemicalweapons, but before, not wishing to dismiss chemical weapons, but they are not really a weapon of mass destruction, unlike nuclear power, nuclear weapons, is a former defence minister, what is your view of how president putin will approach the use of its nuclear arsenal s this is one of the things that we in central europe h
Bring this outlast night, and that s bring this out last night, and that s because the russian ministry of defence has been circulating a number of defence has been circulating a number of of defence has been circulating a number of documents around saying they have number of documents around saying they have physical proof of a us and ukrainian they have physical proof of a us and ukrainian programme for chemical and volatile ukrainian programme for chemical and volatile weapons being used inside ukraine volatile weapons being used inside ukraine and development you being used inside ukraine. i ve seen the documents, used inside ukraine. i ve seen the documents, and i ve seen translation of the documents, and i ve seen translation of the documents, they say no such thing of the documents, they say no such thing but of the documents, they say no such thing but it of the documents, they say no such thing. but it is right and proper that the thing. but it is right an