War in Ukraine, Biden: “Use chemical weapons Russia is a real threat”

“I think it’s a real threat.” So Joe Biden replied to reporters who asked him, as he left the White House for Brussels, how high the risk of Russia’s use of chemical weapons in the war in Ukraine is. Regarding the message he intends to convey to the leaders he will meet tomorrow, the US president replied: “All I have to say, I will say when I arrive.” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin against the appeal to chemical or biological weapons. Responding to a question on the matter, government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit clarified that Scholz “warned him in the course of a direct conversation”, and then specified that he did not have “any further consequences that have been discussed” to share. . “I have received information that Russia is preparing to use chemical weapons, including sarin gas,” Volodymyr Zelensky said today in his speech to the Japanese Parliament, recalling the March 1995 attack by the Aum Shinrikyo sect with the sarin gas in the Tokyo subway, which killed 14 people and injured thousands, according to the Japan Times.