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Ukraine news – live: UK's Boris Johnson fears Russia will use chemical weapons as millions flee Kyiv
The British PM made the statement regarding Vladimir Putin’s "cynical and barbaric" government in a Sky News interview. He said: "The stuff that you’re hearing about chemical weapons is straight out of [the Russian] playbook. "They start saying that there are chemical weapons stored by their opponents, or by Americans. So when they, themselves, deploy chemical weapons — as I fear they may — they have a fake story ready to go. "And you’ve seen it in Syria, you saw it even in the UK ... I just note that that is what they’re already doing." Two million people have fled Kyiv — around half the capital city’s total population, according to its mayor Vitali Klitschko said. Despite the mass exodus, he insisted that Kyiv was still safe — saying: "[It] has been transformed into a fortress. Every street, every building, every checkpoint has been fortified." Russian troops have failed to capture Kyiv since Putin launched the invasion on 24 February. Posted by: Besoeker 2022-03-11 |
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