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The Pentagon’s office of Acquisition and Sustainment, the weapons buyer for the US Department of Defense, will host the 90-minute meeting and deputy secretary of defence Kathleen Hicks was expected to attend, one of the people said. Resupplying as well as planning for a longer war is expected to be discussed at the meeting, the sources told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The Pentagon will host leaders from the top eight US weapons manufacturers on Wednesday to discuss the industry’s capacity to meet Ukraine’s weapons needs if the war with Russia lasts years, two people familiar with the meeting said on Tuesday.ĭemand for weapons has shot up after Russia’s invasion spurred US and allied weapons transfers to Ukraine. In doing so, they have solemnly and voluntarily committed never to develop, produce, acquire, stockpile, transfer or use chemical weapons.” This follows reports in the media over the past few weeks of shelling targeted at chemical plants located in Ukraine, together with accusations levelled by both sides around possible misuse of toxic chemicals.Īll 193 OPCW Member States, including the Russian Federation and Ukraine, are parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention, an international treaty of major importance in the field of disarmament that has been in force since 1997. The Secretariat is concerned by the recent unconfirmed report of chemical weapons use in Mariupol, which has been carried in the media over the past 24 hours. The Technical Secretariat of the OPCW is monitoring closely the situation in Ukraine. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement: Reports first emerged on Monday from Ukraine’s Azov battalion that a Russian drone had dropped a “poisonous substance” on troops and civilians in Mariupol. The world’s chemical weapons watchdog has said it is “concerned” over reports of the use of chemical weapons in the besieged Ukrainian port of Mariupol. 06.58 BST Chemical weapons watchdog ‘concerned’ by Mariupol reports