Mr Chizhov claimed Russia has never produced Novichok, saying it had “no stockpiles whatsoever” of any nerve agent and "Russia has stopped production of any chemical agents back in 1992".Chizhov flatly denied that Russia had any stocks of novichok or had ever manufactured it. The Guardian
But why not read the transcript
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/18031801.pdf
This represents a bit of an issue relating to your narritive now doesn't it?AM: This is a very obscure nerve agent, not much understood
around the world. Has Russia ever produced this agent, Novichok?
VC: No.
AM: Never?
VC: No. Actually Russia has stopped production of any chemical
agents back in 1992. So we cannot even talk about any chemical
agents produced by Russia. All that have been produced
previously was produced by the Soviet Union. In 1992 the then
President, Boris Yeltsin, signed a decree stopping all production,
and on – according to the international convention on prohibition
of chemical weapons last year, 2017,
You have said you know Novichok exists and was a Russian nerve agent.
Yet now you have the Russians claiming it never existed.
You also know the Russians never admitted it existed to the authorities that overseen the destruction of the 40 plus tons of nerve agent Russia actually admitted existed (enough to kill ever person in the world many times over) Which the USA actually paid for as the Russians claimed they couldn't afford it.
So as they never admitted Novichok existed and still do not, yet you clearly know it did, The only explanation is the Russians clearly lied about its existence and never destroyed it.
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