Despite warnings: Russia wants to break Ukraine's resistance with chemical weapons. Russia is now increasingly relying on chemical warfare agents.
Several media outlets accuse Russia of deliberately attacking positions with tear gas. The Geneva Protocol on the “prohibition of the use of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases and bacteriological agents in war’ has been in effect since June 1925. Chemical weapons of mass destruction were developed and distributed on an ever-increasing scale at the beginning of the 20th century.