NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg does not exclude that Russia can fabricate circumstances to justify the use of chemical weapons against Ukraine.

“For months, we have exposed Russia’s long list of lies. They claimed they did not plan to invade Ukraine. But they did. They claimed they were withdrawing their troops. But they sent in even more. They claim to be protecting civilians.

But they are killing civilians. Now they are making absurd claims about iological labs and chemical weapons in Ukraine,” he said in Brussels Tuesday at a press conference on the eve of an extraordinary meeting of the North Atlantic Council at the level of defense ministers, which will be held in Brussels March 16.

Stoltenberg stated that any use of chemical weapons would be a violation of international law and a violation of the ban on the use of chemical weapons. He said that they urge Russia not to use chemical weapons, they also ask to withdraw its forces and stop fighting and, especially, not to use chemical weapons.

At the same time, he noted that Russia had previously used a chemical element to kill a political opponent, as well as supporting the Assad regime, helped to simplify the use of chemical weapons.

At the same time, Stoltenberg declined to answer the question of how NATO would react if Russia did use chemical weapons in the war with Ukraine. He said that their primary responsibility is to protect NATO allies. He said that it is important that Russia understands that they are ready to do this. According to him, Russia is accusing Ukraine and NATO allies of producing chemical weapons, saying that this is a lie. They are concerned that they will do just that. The President of the United States and other allies have made it clear that if they use chemical weapons, they will pay a heavy price. But he refused to speculate about any militaryreaction from NATO, except that NATO will do everything to protect its allies.