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Putin Boasts Of Destruction Of Chemical Weapons, Chides U.S. Postponement

September 29 2017

Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that his country is destroying its final stocks of chemical weapons, reports Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

On Wednesday, the president said that "the last chemical ammunition from Russian chemical weapons stockpiles" was then being destroyed. Putin made his comments during a video link with Russia's remaining chemical weapons storage facility in the central Udmurtia region. He called it an "historic event."

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