Donetsk Military Administration: Too early to say if chemical weapons were deployed in Mariupol
Roman Petrenko – Tuesday, 12 April 2022, 17:33
Pavlo Kyrylenko, Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, said that 3 people were injured in a Mariupol explosion caused by an unidentified substance dropped by Russian troops from an unmanned aerial vehicle. It is too early to say whether this was a chemical attack.
Source: Pavlo Kyrylenko, Head of the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, on Telegram
According to Kyrylenko: "3 people were injured last night in Mariupol in an explosion involving an unidentified substance which the Russians dropped from a UAV. It is still too early to say what the substance was exactly and whether this can be classified as a chemical attack."
Details: Kyrylenko said that Russian troops are trying to conceal evidence of their atrocities in Mariupol and using mobile crematoria to burn the bodies of the civilians they murdered.
According to information from the Donetsk Regional Military Administration, the death toll in Mariupol is in the thousands.
Background:
- On 11 April the "Azov" Regiment said that Russian occupying troops in Mariupol had deployed chemical weapons in an attack on the Azovstal plant, which was held by the Ukrainian Defence Forces.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine stated that world leaders had promised a prompt and tough response if the Russian Federation deploys chemical weapons in Ukraine.
- The UK’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the information about Russian use of chemical weapons in Mariupol is being verified. The Pentagon said that they cannot verify the report that Russian troops deployed chemical weapons in Mariupol.
- Those affected by the attack are in a relatively satisfactory condition.
- On 12 April the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine announced that the military command is verifying information about the possible use of chemical weapons by the Russian occupying soldiers; it is possible that phosphorous munitions were deployed.
