Chemical weapons may be used against people who are staying at the Azovstal plant. According to the latest data, in order to avoid losses among the servicemen of the russian armed forces, the so-called ‘smoking out’ of Ukrainian defenders and civilians from the premises of the enterprise can be carried out. The russia’s leadership plans to carry out bomb and missile strikes using artillery and aircraft ammunition – carriers of poisonous substances. At the same time, russian units of the ‘radiation, chemical and biological protection forces’ will use aerosols with chemical weapons. 

It is known that the phrase from a part of conversation between the russia’s president with the minister of defence in a video, posted by media, was taken out of the context. Putin’s phrase about “blocking off the area of the enterprise so that a fly cannot pass through” should be seen in the context of not allowing anyone to get out of the catacombs alive, particularly, after the use of chemical weapons.  

Additional evidence of the kremlin’s plans to use chemical weapons is the spread of false information about the availability of chemical and biological weapons in Ukraine and the selection and inspection of possible places for storage of ammunition (cylinders) with poisonous substances.