Russian President Vladimir Putin has called the destruction of the last chemical munitions in the country a “historic event.”

The last kilogram of Russia’s 40,000-tonne stockpile of chemical warfare agents, which was contained in two artillery shells, was destroyed on Wednesday at the Kizner facility in Udmurtia. “As is known, Russia was the largest holder and possessor of chemical weapons, and so far the United States, which unfortunately does not fulfill its obligations on the timing of the destruction of chemical weapons, has already three times postponed the destruction on the pretext of lack of funds, which sounds very strange,” he pointed out. * Portable system can destroy 25 tonnes of toxic agents per day

AMSTERDAM/WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The Pentagon is suggesting the world’s chemical weapons watchdog uses a U.S.-made mobile destruction unit in Syria to neutralise the country’s toxic stockpile, officials told Reuters.
Russia announces it has completed the destruction of all of its chemical weapons under the terms of the Chemical Weapons Convention.