NEW: White House sets up a team to plan for what happens if Russia uses chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine, a senior administration official says.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan sent a memo Feb. 28 detailing how the so-called"Tiger Team" would look at what might happen over the next three months of conflict, the senior administration official told NBC News.
Russia is one of 193 countries to have signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, an international treaty that bans their development, production or use. “The main thing that we’re looking at right now is the deliberate drumbeat of misinformation, propaganda and lies on this subject that has all the markers of a precursor to them actually using these weapons,” he said.
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