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Fears are mounting that Vladimir Putin could be preparing to deploy chemical weapons in Ukraine in an effort to break the country’s resistance to Russia’s invasion.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that officials are “on the lookout” for the use of banned weapons after Moscow claimed without evidence that Kyiv is considering the use of non-conventional weapons. She described the allegation that Ukraine was planning to use chemical weapons as an “obvious ploy”.
Boris Johnson warned that Moscow is “saying that there are chemical weapons that are being stored by their opponents or by the Americans” so that “when they themselves deploy chemical weapons – as I fear they may – they have a sort of a maskirovka, a fake story, ready to go”.
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More than 4.5 million people have now been displaced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The majority are currently in Poland and other neighbouring countries.
To find out how closely you’ve been paying attention to the latest developments in the conflict, and other global events, put your knowledge to the test with our Quiz of The Week:
Need a reminder of some of the other headlines over the past seven days?
- Former Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has been banned for life from holding a parliamentary pass after an independent panel found him to be a “serial bully” and “serial liar”.
- Johnson left the door open to lifting the ban on fracking as he looks for ways to shore up the country’s energy security following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
- A woman in her 60s was arrested over the suspected murder of Martine Vik Magnussen, a Norwegian student found dead in London over a decade ago.
- Spanish company Nueva Pescanova announced plans to open the world’s first commercial octopus farm.
- And a US study has found that the Covid-19 pandemic may have claimed 18.2 million lives worldwide, more than three times the official death toll.
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