The head of the DPR allowed the use of chemical weapons by the United States against the water canal – RBK

The provocation of American private military companies using chemical weapons can be carried out on the Seversky Donets-Donbass water channel, said the head of the unrecognized DPR Denis Pushilin. Interfax…

“There are also fears that if American PMCs implement such plans, such an important life support resource as water may become the object of the use of chemical weapons,” he said, adding that “one of the international organizations” periodically checks the water quality in the Seversky Donets canal. – Donbass “.

Such actions would violate both the Minsk agreements and international humanitarian law, Pushilin added. “This should be assessed by international organizations and the guarantor countries of the Minsk agreements,” he said, suggesting that the publication of this information would prevent a “terrorist act”.

A day earlier, on December 21, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that “it is reliably known” about the presence of more than 120 employees of American PMCs in Avdeevka and Priazovsky Donetsk region. According to him, they are preparing a provocation in this region. “To commit a provocation, reserves of an unidentified chemical component were delivered to the cities of Avdeevka and Krasny Liman,” he said.