Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko in her Telegram channel called the lie of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell about chemical weapons in Iraq at a meeting of the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003, when he showed a test tube with white powder as "proof" of the existence of such weapons, a crime without a statute of limitations.

“This is a crime without a statute of limitations. And so it should remain in the memory of mankind. Our task is to do everything in order not to let the truth about what happened and about the perpetrators of that tragedy be erased ... Not to let those who made these decisions, who developed the plans, escape the court of history. Their names are known,” writes Matvienko.

She compared Powell's speech with the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in terms of the level of destruction and suffering that these US actions brought - the death of hundreds of thousands of civilians, millions of refugees, a destroyed country, deprived of independence and the emergence of a number of terrorist groups, including - IS (organization banned in Russia).

Earlier, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that the United States should not count on the fact that the memory of the staging in the UN Security Council with the “Powell test tube” will be buried in the quicksands of history, Washington will have to get rid of the permissiveness syndrome.