Russia has been increasingly turning to using “illegal” tear gas against Ukrainian forces to secure an advantage at the front, Kyiv has claimed.
Ukraine‘s military previously accused Moscow’s forces of repeatedly breaching the Geneva Protocol by using chemical weapons and doubled down on its accusations this week.
Colonel Serhii Pakhomov, the acting head of Kyiv’s atomic, biological, and chemical defence forces, claimed Russia had been caught deploying riot control gas – which is also banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Pakhomov said his officers had recorded Russian forces using the banned riot control gas on at least 900 occasions over the past six months, saying the use had hit “systemic” levels.
The Ukrainian officer said Russia has primarily been using hand grenades loaded with CS, CN and other gases on the battlefield.
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Tyler Mitchell