Ukraine unit accuses Russia of using chemical weapons
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The probe comes as the top officials at the United Nations called Monday for both an investigation into Russia’s violence against women during its invasion of Ukraine and the protection of children in the conflict.
“Reports that Russian forces may have used chemical agents in an attack on the people of Mariupol. We are working urgently with partners to verify details,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss wrote on Twitter.“Any use of such weapons would be a callous escalation in this conflict and we will hold Putin and his regime to account.”
Ukrainian lawmaker Ivanna Klympush said Russia had used an “unknown substance” in Mariupol and that people were suffering from respiratory failure. “Most likely chem.weapons!” she tweeted.
Ukraine’s Azov battalion in a Telegram message earlier on Monday had claimed a Russian drone dropped a “poisonous substance” on Ukrainian troops and civilians in Mariupol.
The force also claimed that people were experiencing respiratory failure and neurological problems.
The battalion’s founder, Andrei Biletsky, said that three people were suffering effects from an unknown toxic substance.
“Three people have clear signs of poisoning by warfare chemicals, but without catastrophic consequences,” he said in a video address on Telegram.
AFP was unable to verify the claims.
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Ukrainians on Monday that Russia might use chemical weapons in Mariupol. “We take this as seriously as possible,” he said in his nightly address, but did not confirm they had already been used.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a statement that the US could not confirm the drone report out of Mariupol. But Kirby noted the administration’s persistent concerns “about Russia’s potential to use a variety of riot control agents, including tear gas mixed with chemical agents, in Ukraine.”
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