Ukraine is investigating a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on besieged Mariupol, where the mayor said at least 10,000 civilians had been killed.
, as Western officials warned Tuesday that any use of chemical weapons by Russia would be a serious escalation of the already devastating war.
In the face of stiff resistance by Ukrainian forces bolstered by Western weapons, Russian forces have increasingly relied on bombarding cities, flattening many urban areas and leaving thousands of people dead. In other areas, they have pulled back to regroup. Civilians fleeing from the conflict zones in Kyiv, Kramatorsk, Kharkiv, and Mariupol take temporary shelter at the sports hall of Lviv Polytechnic National University in Lviv, Ukraine, on April 7, 2022. (Photo by Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu Agency via GePutin insisted during a visit to Russia's Far East that the military operation would prevail, and that foreign powers wouldn’t succeed in isolating Russia.
But Eduard Basurin was quoted by the Interfax news agency on Tuesday as saying that the separatist forces "haven’t used any chemical weapons in Mariupol."It was the Ukrainian regiment defending the plant that claimed a drone had dropped a poisonous substance on the city. It indicated there were no serious injuries. The assertion by the Azov Regiment, a far-right group now part of the Ukrainian military, could not be independently verified.
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