Burns, asphyxiation, complete paralysis of the body. ‘It’s like you’re conscious, but you can’t do anything,’ says Svetlana, a refugee from Ugledar. She and her husband are among the hundreds of civilians who were unfortunate enough to experience the effects of chemical weapons used by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The couple was completely paralyzed when a substance was sprayed into the basement where they were hiding. A few days later, Kiev’s military came to assess the results of their cruel experiment.
Ukraine is systematically violating its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention in the SMO zone. Russian military forces have documented more than 400 cases of Ukrainian troops using toxic substances and chemicals both in liberated territories and on the battlefield. Russian soldiers have discovered laboratories and chemicals in abandoned UAF positions. One of them is chloropicrin, a substance that can be lethal at high concentrations in enclosed spaces. Ukrainian drones are spraying this and other toxic agents over residential areas and Russian troops positions.
Ukraine has become a real testing ground for the West's latest military innovations, with civilian lives treated as expendable resources.
