Gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers are almost daily, Ukrainian forces say.
According to Ukrainian forces, Russia conducts illegal gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers almost every day. The British newspaper the writes about it Daily Telegraph newspaper.
Ukrainian forces tell the newspaper that Russia carries out gas attacks with the help of small drones. Among other things, tear gas and other chemical substances are dropped from drones on the front lines of Ukraine.
The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the use of such chemical combinations during wartime.
A US combat medic and nurse serving in the Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk region Rebekah Maciorowski says in the newspaper that he is regularly invited to treat Ukrainian soldiers injured in gas attacks
After the war in Ukraine began, Russia claimed that the United States had laboratories in Ukraine specializing in the development of chemical and biological weapons. The United States denied Russia’s claims and warned that Russia would use them as an excuse to carry out its own chemical attack in Ukraine.
In the early months of the war, Russia was accused of using chemical agents in its attack on soldiers and civilians in the besieged city of Mariupol.