putin s endgame is here? it s really ha rd it s really hard to say. unfortunately i think things will get worse before they get better. it is clear that putin is not going to be able to achieve his political objective with the military forces he has in ukraine right now. so the question becomes when he realises that does he stop and negotiate a settlement or does he escalate in some way s and i think that is what people are worrying about in the context of the chemical threats we have seen coming out of the region. all right, gregory koblentz, thank you very much for coming on the programme. on the programme. thank you very much on the programme. thank you very much for on the programme. thank you very much for having - on the programme. thank you very much for having me. - president putin has held talks with the leaders of france and germany about the situation in ukraine. let s get more from our europe editor katya adler. french and german officials said it is difficult, vladimir
this war can stop when you want it to, you just need to lay down your arms, surrender, give in to all our demands and forget about being a part of western europe. frank gardner, bbc news. gregory koblentz is director of the biodefense graduate program at george mason university. in the past, he has briefed the un security council about weapons of mass destruction. in your assessment, what is the arsenal of chemical biological weapons available to president putin if he decides to use them? , , . them? russia inherited the remains of them? russia inherited the remains of the them? russia inherited the remains of the soviet, - them? russia inherited the i remains of the soviet, former soviet chemical biological weapons, which was massive. russia claims it destroyed their weapons facilities from those programmes but the reality is we don t know what they held onto. the one thing we do know is that they have the novichok nerve agent,