Russia admits to using banned chemical weapons in Ukraine
Russia has “deliberately deployed” prohibited chemical weapons in Ukraine, admitting to intentionally “smoking out” Ukrainian soldiers from their positions in the south of the country, 20 miles from the liberated city of Kherson.
In Telegram posts, the Russian Black Sea fleet’s 810th Naval Infantry Brigade said that it had made “a radical change” in its combat strategy in Krynky in mid-December and used the “tactic of dropping grenades from drones on to enemy positions … to smoke them out from fortified positions”.
The brigade used K-51 aerosol grenades containing the incapacitating CS gas (2-chlorobenzalmalononitrile), otherwise known as tear gas. Riot control agents are, however, prohibited from being used “as a method of warfare” under the Chemical Weapons Convention, which came into force in 1997 and
