Jen Psaki: Russia intends to organize a provocation with chemical weapons

White House press secretary Jen Psaki rejected the statement of the Russian Defense Ministry that Washington and Kyiv were conducting joint research in the field of biological weapons. She also assured that these messages could be evidence of Russian attacks with the use of chemical and biological weapons.

Psaki also believes that China is going to support "this propaganda".

“Now that Russia has made these false claims, and China has apparently supported this propaganda, we should all be on the lookout for Russia possibly using chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine or organizing a false flag operation using them. This is a clear pattern”, - Psaki wrote on her Twitter.

Earlier, a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that during the course of a special military operation in Ukraine, the facts of an emergency cleansing by Kiev of traces of a military biological program were revealed. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the US Department of Defense was involved in financing this program.

At the same time, US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland confirmed that there are biological research facilities in Ukraine. The United States is working to prevent them from falling under the control of the Russian military.