MOSCOW, February 19. /TASS/. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has not reacted in any way to the evidence of Kiev's violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) presented by Russia, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian Armed Forces’ Nuclear, Biological and Chemical (NBC) Protection Troops, said.
"In all of these cases, the necessary evidence base is available and has been submitted to the OPCW Technical Secretariat. Four months later, there has been no response from the Organization to the evidence we have provided about Ukraine's violations of the Convention," Kirillov said at a Russian Defense Ministry briefing on violations by the US and Ukraine of the requirements of the CWC.
He pointed out that the investigation of all these incidents was carried out in accordance with OPCW requirements with the use of field and stationary laboratories, which allow to reliably determine the type of chemical compound and the country of production.
According to him, in-depth analysis of samples was carried out at the The Russian Federation Defence Ministry Central Research Institute 27 of the Research Center of the Russian NBC Protection Troops, which has held OPCW accreditation and the highest rating qualifications for the past twenty-five years.