Agent, a type of chemical weapon, in salisbury in the uk four years ago. so, what is russia saying? one concern is that moscow has been making claims that ukraine has its own weapons programmes. russia actually called a un meeting today amid claims of a secret us backed biological weapons lab, something washington and ukraine deny. russia asked the security council for today s meeting for the sole purpose of lying and spreading disinformation, and that is exactly what you have heard from the russian pr this morning. the fear is that russia is preparing for what s called a false flag , using chemical weapons itself and then blaming the ukrainians in order to justify the invasion. that, one western official said today, seems more likely than widespread military use of chemicals. so, what would the consequences be? in 2013, parliament voted not to take military action after the use of chemical weapons in syria, even though
The aftermath of a shelling in kharkiv. as russia s tactics become more aggressive and desperate, the growing fear is that it could use chemical weapons. ukraine s leaders today added his voice to those warning of that danger. translation: what else have you prepared for us? - where will you strike with your chemical weapons? at the maternity hospital in mariupol? at the church in kharkiv? or at the children s hospital? so, what are chemical weapons? they release a toxin or poison, often a gas, and were used to devastating effect in the syrian conflict by russia s ally, the assad regime. and russia itself used a nerve agent, a type of chemical weapon, in salisbury in the uk four years ago. so, what is russia saying? 0ne concern is that moscow has been making claims that ukraine has its own weapons programmes. russia actually called a un meeting today amid claims of a secret
Aggressive and desperate, a growing fear is that it could use chemical weapons. ukraine s leader today added his voice to those warning of that danger. translation: what else have you prepared for us? - where will you strike with your chemical weapons? at the maternity hospital in mariupol? at the church in kharkiv? or at the children s hospital? so, what are chemical weapons? they release a toxin or poison, often a gas, and were used to devastating effect in the syrian conflict by russia s ally, the assad regime. and russia itself used a nerve agent, a type of chemical weapon, in salisbury in the uk four years ago. so, what is russia saying? one concern is that moscow has been making claims that ukraine has its own weapons programmes. russia actually called a un meeting today amid claims of a secret us backed biological weapons lab, something washington and ukraine deny. russia asked the security council for today s meeting for the sole
References, and overt references, and overt references to ukrainian nuclear weapons programmes, dirty bombs, chemicalweapons weapons programmes, dirty bombs, chemical weapons and so forth. so there is a concern that one of these will be used as a pretext, a false flag by the kremlin to then justify an increase in russian retaliation.- increase in russian retaliation. , ., , . ., increase in russian retaliation. , retaliation. dmitri pascoe said in an interview retaliation. dmitri pascoe said in an interview that retaliation. dmitri pascoe said in an interview that russia - in an interview that russia might be forced to use its nuclear weapons if it faced an existential crisis. what is an existential crisis. what is an existential threat to russia? that is a $60 million question, isn t it? because apparently ukraine resented an existential threat to the russian federation, which is extraordinary, given that it has six thousand, 6500 nuclear weapons. more than capable of securing its
Warning of that danger. translation: what else have you prepared for us? - where will you strike with your chemical weapons? at the maternity hospital in mariupol? at the church in kharkiv? or at the children s hospital? so, what are chemical weapons? they release a toxin or poison, often a gas, and were used to devastating effect in the syrian conflict by russia s ally, the assad regime. and russia itself used a nerve agent, a type of chemical weapon, in salisbury in the uk four years ago. so, what is russia saying? one concern is that moscow has been making claims that ukraine has its own weapons programmes. russia actually called a un meeting today amid claims of a secret us backed biological weapons lab, something washington and ukraine deny. russia asked the security council for today s meeting for the sole purpose of lying and spreading disinformation, and that is exactly what you have heard from the russian pr this morning.