Desperate Russia has begun deploying a mysterious new gas and unknown chemical weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine.
Russia posses stockpile if second world war era chemical weapons and gas which was banned under UN convention.
The sinister use of chemical warfare against the Ukrainian troops comes as Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops continue to push west on the frontline.
Russia has now used a mysterious WW1-style gas on the frontlines to choke Ukrainian soldiers fighting there, Kyiv claims.
However, Kyiv’s forces have been unable to recognise the chemical composition according to Colonel Artem Vlasiuk, Ukraine’s Support Forces’ Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Command.
Vlasiuk told The Kyiv Independent: “Ukraine is currently unable to identify the majority of the gas used on the battlefield, compared to previous months when it could diagnose about half of the chemicals.”
The colonel added: “Of the 323 recorded cases of Russia’s chemical attacks in October, nearly all except 15 incidents were ‘unidentified’.”
Gas warfare is used to choke Ukrainian troops from their strongholds as Russia mounts an increasingly successful push westward.
Footage shows show examples of Russian forces using gas on the frontline to “smoke out” Ukrainian troops.
Vlasiuk has since pleaded for more Western high-end detector technology costing up to £460,000 to diagnose the toxins deployed by Vladimir Putin’s forces.
Vlasiuk said: “We can detect tear gas, but if the enemy uses something else more complex, newer, or a mix that is similar in composition but not tear gas, we can’t identify it.”
Ukraine is desperately short of the equipment to identify gases in Russia’s use of chemical weapons, it is claimed.
The mysterious new gas comes after Russia previously used banned gas agents in the ongoing Ukraine war.
Ukraine previously accused Russia of more than 4,600 gas attacks on the battlefield since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in 2022.
Among these are tear gas, as well as ammonia and chloropicrin, which dates as a weapon from the trenches of the First World War.
Chloropicrinthe attacks soft tissues of the respiratory system, and at higher doses can kill.
Poisoning causes profuse vomiting and blindness, as well as skin irritation.
The detectors are vital to establishing war crimes.
The use on the battlefield of chemical agents, even if non-lethal, for example tear gas is a violation of the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention.
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