NATO has expressed concern that Russia may be planning to use chemical weapons in Ukraine under the pretext that Ukraine and NATO operate chemical and biological weapons labs in the country.
"They are making absurd claims about biological labs and chemical weapons in Ukraine," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference in advance of Wednesday's meeting of the alliance's defense ministers.
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