DONETSK OBLAST – Gasping for air from a trench in eastern Ukraine, an infantryman was ready for the worst when a suffocating white smoke spread into his position. A Russian drone had just dropped a gas grenade into the trench, an internationally banned practice in warfare used to suffocate Ukrainian soldiers

Gasping for air from a trench in eastern Ukraine, an infantryman was ready for the worst when a suffocating white smoke spread into his position.

A Russian drone had just dropped a gas grenade into the trench, an internationally banned practice in warfare used to suffocate Ukrainian soldiers hiding inside. Forced out in the open, the Ukrainians immediately became vulnerable targets for Russian drones and artillery.

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Russia has increasingly deployed chemical agents in its grand offensive to occupy the last cities in the Donbas region under Ukrainian control. The suffocation tactic is to take out entrenched personnel and dampen the morale of Ukrainian soldiers who – severely outmanned and outgunned – have been withdrawing village by village in the east for nearly a year.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I feel like I answered that question already. “The US has apparently laid out what happens next in painstaking detail”. I was not in the room, so I don’t know what that means exactly, but it’s a bunch of specifically allocated military facilities to be bombed out or something.

    Please dump the polemic somewhere else. I’m upset about Gaza too.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Russia has used chemical weapons before to a silent US. Call it what you want but I dont have faith in the word of the US government.

      Glad you do, all the while you are upset about Gaza.

      I wasnt being snarky I wanted to know the historical event, your comment was worded strangely.