The prime minister and the Ukrainian president have been having almost daily phone calls in which Boris Johnson has had to say he cannot support a NATO no-fly zone.
, reiterating Western officials' fears after Moscow accused Kyiv of planning to deploy them in the battlefield."They start saying that there are chemical weapons that have been stored by their opponents or by the Americans.
"You've seen it in Syria. You saw it even in the UK. That's what they're already doing. It is a cynical, barbaric government."On Wednesday, Moscow said it had uncovered a military biological weapons programme in Ukraine involving deadly pathogens such as plague and anthrax and called on the US to explain the"Ukrainian biological weapons lab".
And White House press secretary Jen Psaki has since been asked about the chances of Russia using chemical weapons. She said:"They have the capacity and the capability."
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