RTTue, 07 Feb 2023 14:33 UTC
© Thomas Coex / AFPUkrainian soldiers at a shooting range in Toledo, Spain, December 2, 2022
Russian military commanders have reported that Ukrainian troops deployed a type of chemical weapon against their units in Donbass, according to a local official.
Speaking to Russian television on Monday, Denis Pushilin,
the acting governor of the Donetsk People's Republic, said his office has been receiving reports about possible chemical warfare "for at least two weeks." Ukrainian troops have reportedly been deploying "chemical compounds that make our military service members ill," he said.
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for
the Kremlin, declined to discuss the allegation with journalists, saying that his office didn't have accurate information about the issue.
He said the Russian military would pass such incidents up the chain of command and suggested contacting the Defense Ministry with further inquiries. The Defense Ministry did not immediately comment on the claim.
Speculation that some Ukrainian units may use air-dropped munitions with a chemical agent has been swirling on social media since mid-January.
The rumors were apparently triggered by a video that surfaced showing people in Ukrainian military uniforms assembling small quad drones carrying small containers, with the payload apparently taken from a refrigerator. Some military experts suggested that whatever was used must have been volatile if it had to be stored at a low temperature.Chemical warfare is forbidden under the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), an international treaty that took effect in 1997 and to which both Ukraine and Russia are signatories. The military prohibition applies even to riot control agents, colloquially known as tear gas, though unlike other chemical weapons, the CWC allows such substances to be manufactured and used in law enforcement.
Comment: The alleged footage:
South report have a video report on the matter
here.
The Nazis used Mustard gas in WW1 and my grand father that I never got the pleasure to meet was hit with it. He later blow his head off because he was in so much pain, it scared his lungs so bad it was hard for him to breathe. Life just wasn't worth living, and now the fucking Nazi Bastards are using it again.
I sincerely hope Putin quits screwing around and just goes and carpet bombs them into hell. The US is funding the Ukraine war just like WW1 an 2 supporting the Nazis Zionist from the git go. Our own government are Traitors to America, everyone single one of them.