2024-05-04 01:29:40
The US State Department on Wednesday accused Russia of using chemical weapons in Ukraine in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and announced new sanctions against Moscow. In addition to the chemical chlorpicrin, Russia also used “riot suppression agents (tear gas) during its war in Ukraine, again violating the CWC,” according to a fact sheet released by the department.
After Ukraine lost the fortress-turned Avdjivka to the west of the regional capital Donetsk, which has been under the control of Ukraine since 2014. controlled by pro-Russian forces, movement at the front began. If in the previous months the territorial gains of the Russians reached several hundred meters, since February the Russian units advanced 15 km and occupied a string of villages.
Ukrainians are also under pressure north of the Bakhmut region. According to Kiev, the Russian military leadership wants to announce the conquest of Chasiv Yar on May 9, when Moscow will commemorate the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
French President Emmanuel Macron has said he would consider sending the country’s ground forces into Ukraine if Russian troops break through the front line.
“France is a country that has carried out military interventions, including recently. We have deployed several thousand troops in the Sahel to fight terrorism that could threaten us. We did this at the request of sovereign states. If the Russians had broken through the front line, if there had been a request from Ukraine – and today there is no such request – we should legitimately raise this issue,” he explained to The Economist.
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2024-05-04 01:29:40