The Russians began to use chemical weapons more actively

The Russians began to use ammunition with a poisonous substance more actively. This was stated by the spokesman of the joint press center of the Defense Forces of the Tavri region, Dmytro Lykhova, on March 10.

“Unfortunately, the Russians are increasingly using poisonous ammunition,” he said.

Lykhoviy noted that over the past week, the Russians have used grenades with a poisonous substance of suffocating and lachrymatory action, such as chloropicrin, about 50 times.

He added that only on March 9, 15 discharges of such ammunition were recorded, and almost all of them were used in the Zaporizhzhia direction.

“When the Russians cannot take the Ukrainian trenches with classic artillery strikes, then they use tear gas,” Lykhovi noted.

Earlier, the Command of the Support Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia has carried out 1,068 chemical attacks. In February 2024 alone, 250 cases were recorded (244 cases of VOG use, one case of gas use, and five cases of other chemical munitions).

Andriy Rudyk, a representative of the Center for the Research of Trophy and Prospective Weapons and Military Equipment, stated that in December 2023, the Russians used the RG-Vo grenade, which contains the substance chloracetophenone, prohibited by the Geneva Protocol, for the first time. The Center assumed that if such a grenade were to fall into a room or dugout, only five minutes would be enough to kill people there.

On February 9, Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, the commander of the Tavria operational-strategic group of troops, said that the Russians in the Tavria direction began to attack with chemical weapons more often. According to him, during February 8, six munitions with the tear-reducing and suffocating chemical substance chlorpicrin were dropped with the help of drones.