Ukraine has documented over 10,000 Russian chemical attacks and submitted evidence to The Hague, as pressure mounts for international action and accountability.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.kyivpost.com/post/57267


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      Ukraine has withdrawn from the anti-personal mine treaty and never signed the one on cluster munitions, so not illegal for them.

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        Ukraine was still a signatory to the mines one when that article was written. Still is now, I think, but has announced it will withdraw. The cluster bombs point is correct though

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          Ukraine was still a signatory to the mines one when that article was written. Still is now

          Nope, they officially withdrew a month ago (June 29th).

          But they have been using them before that.

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              Okay, but the article is from over a year ago

              Ah lol, I was looking at the one in the OP. My bad.

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    I thought it was going to be heinous, but its just tear gas, which is technically a chemical weapon. We’re routinely hit with CN/CS here in the states as civilians, there are adverse health effects they do not really talk about though.

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      Chloropicrin isn’t tear gas, it’s a pesticide that’s poisonous to humans. It was used in WW1 because it can circumvent and damage gas masks, and it absolutely can kill

      Russia is a signatory to both the 1925 Protocol and the 1993 Convention against using chemical weapons (the latter of which even specifically names chloropicrin), so usage of these - even the ones police use - is a war crime

      Also, really, is “American police use them” a defence?

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          Probably specifically because they have non-war uses (even if the police ones shouldn’t be used like that, they currently are). The convention classifies chemical weapons differently depending on their civilian uses, so you can stockpile a lot of pesticide without attracting attention much more easily than you can stockpile a lot of novichok