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RUSSIA BREACHED GLOBAL CHEMICAL WEAPONS BAN IN UKRAINE WAR, US SAYS

By Thomson Reuters May 1, 2024 | 1:07 PM

By Jonathan Landay and Daphne Psaledakis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of
violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent
chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents “as a method
of warfare” in Ukraine.

“The use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident and is probably driven by
Russian forces’ desire to dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and
achieve tactical gains on the battlefield,” the State Department said in a
statement.

Chloropicrin is listed as a banned choking agent by the Hague-based Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which was created to implement
and monitor compliance with the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

German forces fired the gas against Allied troops during World War I in one of
the first uses of a chemical weapon.

Earlier this month, Reuters reported the Ukrainian military as saying Russia has
stepped up its illegal of use riot control agents as it presses its biggest
advances in eastern Ukraine in more than two years.

In addition to chloropicrin, Russian forces have used grenades loaded with CS
and CN gases, the Ukrainian military says.

While civilians usually can escape riot control gases during protests, soldiers
stuck in trenches without gas masks must either flee under enemy fire or risk
suffocating.

The State Department announced it was delivering to Congress its determination
that Russia’s use of chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops violated the CWC.

Moscow’s use of the gas “comes from the same playbook as its operations to
poison” the late opposition leader Alexi Navalny in 2020 and Sergei Skripal and
his daughter Yulia in 2018 with the Novichok nerve agent, the statement said.

Russia denied involvement in both those cases.

The department also determined that Russia has breached the CWC’s prohibition on
the use of riot control agents as a method of warfare, the statement said.

It said it was sanctioning three Russian state entities linked to Moscow’s
chemical and biological weapons programs, including a specialized military unit
that “facilitated the use” of chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops.

Four Russian companies that support the three entities also were sanctioned, it
said.

Separately, the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on three entities and two
individuals involved in purchasing items for Russian military institutes
involved in the country’s chemical and biological weapons programs.

The sanctions were among new measures announced by the United States on
Wednesday targeting Russia over its 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The CWC bans the production and use of chemical weapons. It also requires the
193 countries that have ratified the convention, which include Russia and the
United States, to destroy any stocks of banned chemicals.

The State Department was expected to convey its determination that Russia has
violated the CWC to the OPCW.

Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaching the treaty in OPCW
meetings. But the organization says it has not been formally asked to open an
investigation into the use of prohibited substances in Ukraine.

(Reporting by Jonathan Landay; Editing by Daniel Wallis)





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