Russia has carried out more than 800 chemical attacks in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war
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- Yuliia Tkach
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16:55, 09 February, 2024
Grenade K-51. Photo: Mikhail ZhirokhovIn Ukraine, since the beginning of the Great War, 815 cases of the Russian Federation using ammunition equipped with poisonous chemical substances have been recorded.
This was reported by the Public Relations Service of the Support Forces Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
It is noted that only in January of this year there were 229 such attacks.
Most often, the enemy uses grenades, such as K-51, RGR, RG-Vo, containing the dangerous chemical substance CS, prohibited for waging war (combat operations) by paragraph 5 of Article 1 of the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Units of radiological, chemical and biological reconnaissance troops take samples of soil, vegetation, and ammunition fragments and send them for analysis.
«As part of open criminal proceedings, documented cases of the use of dangerous chemicals are submitted to investigative bodies for investigative actions,» the message reads.
It will be recalled that at the end of January, the Russian occupying forces used chlorpicrin grenades five times in the Tavriisk direction.