The US says Russia violated the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands – Russia and Ukraine have accused each other at the global chemical weapons watchdog in The Hague of using banned toxins on the battlefield, the organization said on Tuesday, May 7. Neither Russia nor Ukraine has formally asked the OPCW to investigate the alleged use of chemical weapons, it said.
It followed Ukrainian assertions in April that Russia had increased its use of tear gas in the trenches.
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