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Earlier on Saturday, the chief of Russia's Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops revealed US plans to stage provocations to accuse Moscow baselessly of using chemical, biological, or even tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine to discredit its ongoing military operation in the country.
The Russian military's revelations about suspected US plans to accuse Russian forces of using WMDs in Ukraine are a sign that Washington has moved on to Plan B after the failure of its attempts to sanction Russia into submission, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.
"The reason is clear: the shocking details of the illegal cooperation between the United States and the current Ukrainian authorities in the field of creating bacteriological weapons have been revealed to the world. And the understanding of the inevitability of the detection of their criminal activities was so obvious that Washington began to prepare in advance", Zakharova wrote in a post on her Telegram page on Saturday.
Pointing to Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland's confirmation in a Senate testimony in March on the presence of "biological research facilities" in Ukraine, and fears that these facilities would fall into Russian hands, the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman suggested that Washington has decided to spin the agenda and prepare for a "terrible" provocation, whose victims may include Russian servicemen and Ukrainian civilians alike.
American public opinion on the matter began to be prepared ahead of time, Zakharova suggested, pointing to a 25 March article entitled "Preparing for the Unthinkable in Ukraine" in Foreign Affairs magazine about the likelihood of "Russian biological or chemical attacks" in Ukraine.
"And of course, contractors and (Western-controlled) organisations were found which can be tasked with 'investigating' the circumstances of the use of [such] weapons. I will name two: the Chemical Forensics International Technical Working Group, which 'proved itself' during [chemical weapons] provocations in Syria, and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, which specialises in poisons of the Novichok type. In the past, both structures have shown their reliability and diligence in dealing with their American masters", the spokeswoman wrote.
According to Zakharova, the US is also working with international organisations, including the Red Cross and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), expecting to "pull off a 'Syrian-style scenario'" in the latter, which would enable them to expel Russia from the organisation.
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