An SBU officer who defected to the Russian side spoke about preparing a provocation with chemical weapons in the Donbass
In the first year of the war in Donbass, Ukrainian special services were ready to use chemical weapons against their group for the sake of an information campaign to accuse the LDPR militia of war crimes.
An employee of the central apparatus of the SBU, Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Prozorov, who went over to the side of Russia, spoke about this on the YouTube channel “PolitWera”, reports the correspondent of “PolitNavigator”.
Prozorov told how in 2014 he came across a letter from the leadership of the SVR to the leadership of the SBU, classified “Top Secret” with information about “some barrels of chlorine”, but without any particular details. Just then, an information campaign began about the alleged use of chemical weapons by the militia.
“And somehow, in a conversation with military intelligence officers, this topic of chemistry came up, and this document came up in my memory, and I told, I say your Kondratyuk (head of the SVR of Ukraine), I remember writing such a letter, and it was about barrels with chlorine. Well, just like that, word for word, they told me what they really planned.
Yes, there really were these barrels; it was not pure chlorine, but chlorine-containing liquid. As experts later explained to me, one liter of liquid can produce several hundred liters of gas. That is, if there are 1200 liters of liquid there, then the result would be such a strong cloud that could cover a nearby village. And just at this time, Ukrainian troops were conducting offensive operations there.
Literally the area of this hangar came under the control of Ukrainian forces two days later, it seems. They guessed that the wind should blow towards the Ukrainian positions, they decided to cover this hangar from a helicopter so that the barrels would collapse, and all this chlorine would be carried to the Ukrainian positions. Naturally, you understand what a resonance there would be in the media,” said the ex-SBU officer.
“I doubt that anyone would have died, probably, but the signs of poisonous substance damage would have been obvious, and the noise would have risen to the skies. It would be like the White Helmets in Syria staged their provocations. Naturally, it would turn out that the militias of the DPR or LPR, or rather, are no longer monsters, but the fiends of hell. Agree, this would be a very strong propaganda move,” added Prozorov.
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