Russia and Ukraine trade WMD accusations

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 11 Mar 2022 by Alex Teddy

Moscow alleges that Ukraine is developing chemical, biological weapons with US assistance. Ukraine and the United States say this is an outright lie, and the US says that Russia is considering using tactical nuclear weapons or poison gas in Ukraine and will blame this on Ukraine. The US alleges that Russia has used chemical weapons in Syria on multiple occasions. On March 11 Russia demanded a UN Security Council meeting on weapons of mass destruction. The meeting will be held today.In 2018 Russia accused the US of developing WMDs in Georgia. Moscow has not repeated this accusation for a few years.

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