UK’s Johnson warns Russia may use chemical weapons in Ukraine

By AP 10 March 2022, 8:46 pm

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks throuhg HMS Dauntless, a Type 45 air-defence destroyer of the Royal Navy that has undergone a refit, as he visits Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, England, on March 10, 2022. (Phil Noble/Pool Photo via AP)

LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined other Western officials in warning that Russia could use chemical weapons in Ukraine, and accused the Kremlin of a “cynical, barbaric” attempt to justify such a move.

Johnson said the Kremlin is preparing a “fake story” that chemical weapons are being stored by their opponents or by the Americans as a pretext for deploying the weapons themselves.

“The stuff which you are hearing about chemical weapons is straight out of their playbook,” he tells Sky News.

“You have seen it in Syria, you saw it even in the UK I just note that that is what they are already doing. It is a cynical, barbaric government I’m afraid.”