MOSCOW, March 4. /TASS/. The findings of investigations conducted by Russia have demonstrated that Western countries are developing and delivering chemical warfare agents to Ukraine, Russian Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Kirill Lysogorsky said.
"As sad as it is to acknowledge, the majority of our arguments have been presented in media outlets by the West as unfounded and contrived. That said, according to the results of the investigations carried out, it is already obvious that Western countries, while declaring their willingness to launch a dialogue on strategic stability with us, are essentially the developers and suppliers of chemical warfare agents to Ukraine that are banned under the [Chemical Weapons] Convention [CWC]," he said, commenting on information about a cache with poisons and psychotropic substances that a man recruited by the Kiev regime planned to use to commit mass slaughter in Melitopol.
According to the Russian official, the most outrageous fact is that, last year, it was precisely NATO member countries that, relying on their bloc solidarity, replaced Russia with Ukraine on the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). "It is abnormal when a country possessing the largest chemical industry in the OPCW Eastern Group is being pushed out by such strange manipulations of the consolidated forces of the Western coalition. It (Russia - TASS) is being replaced by Ukraine, which currently completely lacks any type of chemical industry," Lysogorsky explained.