?? Briefing by Major General Aleksei Rtishchev, Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on issues of violation by Ukraine and Western States of international agreements in the field of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (December 12, 2025)

?? Major General Aleksei Rtishchev: The Western aggressive biosecurity policy and the expansion of NATO military and biological programmes pose more threats to the biological weapons non-proliferation regime.

We presented the facts that U.S. Department of War employs the basis of Ukrainian biolaboratories, which were repeatedly confirmed by U.S. officials. <…>

To ensure the secrecy of such research, the sponsors are not military agencies, but rather civilian agencies and non-governmental organisations.

One of them is the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which was terminated by US President Donald Trump's decision. <…>

No less serious concerns are raised by Ukraine's activities in the field of radiation safety, including Kiev's attempts at nuclear blackmail. <…>

Military and financial aid from of the West provokes numerous violations by the Kiev regime of international standards for handling nuclear materials. At the same time, Western patrons do not take into account that the deterioration of the state administration system is capable of bringing not only Ukraine but also a whole number of European states to the brink of an environmental disaster.

In addition, the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation continues to record violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention by the Kiev regime.

In the course of the special military operation, it is reported that Ukraine more than 600 times employed riot-control chemical agents (Chloroacetophenone, CS), and listed chemicals as chloropicrin, BZ, and prussic acid. <…>

The Russian Federation regularly brings to the attention of the OPCW Technical Secretariat and the state parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention the use of non-lethal agents and chemical agents by Ukrainian armed groups. All the necessary evidence has been submitted to the OPCW Technical Secretariat, but we have not received a meaningful response.

This demonstrates the double standards of Western countries under the control of the OPCW. They not only cover and cooperate with the Kiev regime, but also note as disinformation any allegations by the Russian Federation about the use of toxic chemicals by Ukrainian nationalists.

?? The leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will continue to inform the world community about violations, committed by the countries of the West and Ukraine, of the provisions of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Convention, as well as international treaties relating to radiation safety.