Russia is planning to release chemical weapons in Ukraine, according to White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. She was asked to respond to Russian claims that the Pentagon was conducting biological weapons research in Ukraine. According to The New York Post:
Psaki said in a statement that Russia’s “false claims” that the US conducted WMD research in Ukraine could be a deliberate smokescreen to deploy the dreaded weapons.
“Russia has a track record of accusing the West of the very violations that Russia itself is perpetrating. In December, Russia falsely accused the U.S. of deploying contractors with chemical weapons in Ukraine,” Psaki said.
“This is all an obvious ploy by Russia to try to try to justify its further premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on Ukraine.”
Psaki added: “Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has seemingly endorsed this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia to possibly use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, or to create a false flag operation using them. It’s a clear pattern.”
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova claimed Wednesday that invading Russian troops found documents that show Ukraine’s health ministry recently ordered the destruction of samples of plague, cholera and anthrax.
The Russian foreign ministry tweeted, “We confirm that the special military operation in Ukraine revealed facts of the emergency eradication by the Kiev regime of traces of the military biological program implemented by Kiev with funding from the US @DeptofDefense.”
This morning, the Ukrainian government is claiming that a Russian airstrike hit a hospital in Mariupol yesterday, destroying a maternity ward and a children’s ward.
UK PM Boris Johnson called it “depraved.”
The truth seems to be whatever you want to believe. The Truther Industrial Complex is claiming that the hospital attack was staged using crisis actors. They offer no proof of that of course, but it’s quality click-bait.
Did the Russians deliberately bomb the hospital? Who knows? The truth is a moving target.
As for chemical weapons, the US used them in Iraq and Afghanistan. Psaki’s hypocrisy is sickening.
