AFP
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News from the NOS•yesterday, 20:32
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Russia accuses Ukraine of poisoning quite a few Russian troopers in the Zaporizhzhya area of southeastern Ukraine in late July. On the other hand, the Ukrainian government believes the armed service may well have eaten contaminated food items.
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In accordance to the Russian Defense Ministry, a variety of troopers ended up hospitalized on July 31 with significant symptoms of poisoning. The ministry does not say how numerous men and women are associated. Checks would present that they experienced ingested botulinum toxin type B. This neurotoxic material is applied in some medicines, but it can also be abused to poison persons.
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On Telegram, Ukrainian Inside Minister Herashchenko would make an additional statement. “The Russian ministry does not make clear that the poisoning could have been prompted by spoiled meat, in which botulinum toxin is typically discovered.” In accordance to him, there is a good deal of spoiled food stuff circulating among Russian troops in Ukraine.
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Even more investigation on poisoning
The Russian ministry states it will shortly supply further proof and mail documents on “chemical terror” to the Firm for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
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The ministry also introduced that it is opening an investigation into an incident in which the Russian-appointed head of the occupied Kherson location fell ill, the condition information agency reported. Ria Novosti.
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Russia has repeatedly claimed that organic weapons have been made use of in the war by each Ukraine and its ally, the United States. In March, the United Nations Protection Council gathered to talk about it, at the request of Russia.
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No proof of the use of chemical or biological weapons
According to Russia, the United States has engaged in “biological army activities in Ukraine”. In response, the UN body (the Environment Health and fitness Group) mentioned that it “was not knowledgeable of any action of the Ukrainian federal government that violates international treaties, in the subject of chemical or organic weapons”.
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On the opposite, the Ukrainian authorities routinely expresses issue that Russia might want to use chemical weapons. The extremist Azov battalion he even claimed that the Russians utilised poison fuel in the fight for Mariupol. Nevertheless, there is no challenging evidence for this.
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