Russia has carried out 1,068 chemical attacks since the start of the large-scale war in Ukraine

The public relations service of the Command of the Support Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports this on Facebook.

“Mobile groups and other units of the group of forces and support equipment recorded 1068 facts of the use by the Russian Federation of tear-acting iritants, which are equipped with toxic chemicals prohibited for warfare (combat operations) by paragraph 5 of Article 1 of the Chemical Weapons Convention.”

In February 2024 alone, 250 cases were recorded (244 cases of using FOG, one case of using gas and five cases of using other ammunition with a chemical substance).

RCW reconnaissance units take samples of soil, vegetation, and ammunition debris and send them for analysis.