Submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/57267
Ukraine has documented over 10,000 Russian chemical attacks and submitted evidence to The Hague, as pressure mounts for international action and accountability.
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Sadly, both countries in this war are using tons of illegal war munitions, including chemical warfare. Utterly fucked.
Ukraine has withdrawn from the anti-personal mine treaty and never signed the one on cluster munitions, so not illegal for them.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
It'll probably change nothing for Russia, but maybe one or two really deniers in the west might wake up.
Koolio@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
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.
Skua@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
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?
LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
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
Aria@lemmygrad.ml 3 weeks ago
Pointing at the USA as the standard is among the worst defences there is for war crimes. Whoever authorised this tactic belongs in prison.