US rules out chemical attacks in Ukraine before publication by Poland of a guide for its citizens on how to act in the event of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the use of chemical and nuclear weapons in the country.
“We haven’t seen anything that indicates an imminent chemical attack inside Ukraine,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, adding that he “fully respects” the Polish government’s decision to “inform and educate its population”.
This guide explains in a simple way how to prepare to act in a crisis situation – be it chemical or nuclear – and what to do, for example, in the event of air-raid alarms going off, during an evacuation or when supplies run outas well as knowing how to provide first aid or how to act in the event of a hostage taking.
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“The ability to deal with emergency situations is an element extremely important in building a resilient society,” the Polish Government’s Security Center noted on the official website.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, affirmed that the NATO will respond to a possible chemical attack Russian in Ukraine, although he has avoided pointing out the kind of reaction it would trigger. “We will respond if he uses them (chemical weapons), but the nature of the answer will depend on the nature of the use“, he declared.
Along the same lines, the Secretary General of NATO spoke, Jens Stoltenbergwho warned that Russia is looking for a pretext to use chemical weapons in Ukraine, after pointing out the “lies” of the Kremlin about the development of biological laboratories in Ukraine.
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“I am not going to speculate beyond the fact that NATO is always ready to defend, protect and react to any type of attack against an allied country,” Stoltenberg says.
At a press conference before the meeting of defense ministers, Stoltenberg indicated that Moscow could be planning a “false flag” attack to use chemical weapons in the neighboring country, after recalling the Russian history with the use of chemical agents against political opponents and the support for these practices in Syria.
“During this crisis they have tried to create false flag operations to intervene and now they accuse Ukraine of developing chemical weapons and we see the possibility that are they thinking of doing this“, assured about these possible Russian chemical attacks.