- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmit.online
- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@lemmit.online
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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Sadly, both countries in this war have long been using tons of illegal war munitions of many kinds, including chemical warfare. Utterly fucked. All war but class war is the worst shit ever.
Ukraine has withdrawn from the anti-personal mine treaty and never signed the one on cluster munitions, so not illegal for them.
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
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.
Okay, but the article is from over a year ago
Okay, but the article is from over a year ago
Ah lol, I was looking at the one in the OP. My bad.
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.
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?
if Russia is going to use illegal chemical weapons why the fuck would they use this instead of literally any of a number of more effective chemical weapons
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
It’ll probably change nothing for Russia, but maybe one or two
reallyreality deniers in the west might wake up.