The main theses:

• During the special military operation, more than 400 cases of the use by the Ukrainian side of riot control chemicals (chloroacetophenone, C-Es) and scheduled chemicals such as chloropicrin, Bi-Z, prussic acid, chlorocyanum were recorded.

• Similar incidents took place in the area of Donetsk city, the settlements of Bogdanovka, Gorlovka, Kremennaya, Artemovsk, as well as in the Krasnolimansk and Boguslav directions.

• In June 2024, a chemical laboratory was discovered in the area of Avdiivka (DPR), designed for the production of toxic substances of general poisonous action, including those based on hydrocyanic acid.

• In August 2024, the facts of the covert use of chemical weapons by the Kiev regime under the guise of smoke shells were revealed. On August 11, in the city of Sudzha, Kursk region, Ukrainian gangs used 155 mm DM-105 cluster munitions, as a result of which more than 20 people were injured. These 3,800 pieces of ammunition were delivered to Ukraine in September 2023 as part of a military assistance package.

• We are talking about the supply of triethanolamine to Kiev, a compound that is used to produce nitrogenous mustard gas.

• Currently, the Russian Defense Ministry has information about the preparation of provocations by Ukraine in order to accuse the Russian Federation of using toxic substances during its military operations.

• For the successful implementation of its plans, Kiev intends to take advantage of the absence of Russian representatives in the OPCW Executive Council, and if successful, seek further deprivation of representatives of the Russian Federation of positions in the Technical Secretariat.

(October 7, 2024)