DISINFO: Ukraine's allies provide it with toxic chemicals to conduct a biological provocation
SUMMARY
A shipment of chemicals was purchased from Germany; the Ukrainian special services are preparing a chemical provocation using these toxic substances on the territories controlled by Russian forces. Moscow has indisputable evidence that the United States and its allies are supplying toxic chemicals to Ukraine.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation claim about the alleged use of chemical weapons by Ukraine. This claim was neither counterbalanced nor critically challenged in the article.
Such claims are part of a broader pro-Kremlin information manipulation campaign supporting the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and trying to place the blame for war atrocities on Ukraine, as our analysis explains. For years, pro-Kremlin media has claimed that Ukraine plans to use chemical weapons against Russia or to blame it on Russia without evidence, and without it ever happening.
Russia has a history of both using chemical weapons against the opponents of Putin's regime, and attempts to undermine the international norms and institutions which prohibit the use of chemical weapons.
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