MOSCOW, February 27. /TASS/. Russia will throw the spotlight on the Ukrainian special services' crimes committed with the use of the BZ chemical warfare agent, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

"The issue of crimes involving the use of an analogue of NATO’s BZ chemical warfare agent by Ukrainian special services will become a subject of discussion at international organizations," Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) earlier said that it had thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian special services to commit a terrorist act in the Zaporozhye Region using an analogue of NATO’s BZ chemical warfare agent. On February 27, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had prevented a terrorist attack plotted by the Ukrainian secret services involving the use of an analogue of a chemical warfare agent in the Zaporozhye Region. Three Ukrainian citizens were detained. The seized chemical agents are used to create chemical weapons of mass destruction. They were developed in the US. The FSB’s Investigative Department has launched criminal proceedings and is investigating a case under Article 355 (development, production, stockpiling, acquisition or sale of weapons of mass destruction) and Article 205 (terrorist act) of the Criminal Code.