Chemical weapons are prohibited on battlefields.

A DEMANDINGLY DISAPPOINTED Russia has started deploying a new mysterious gas on the Ukrainian battlefield.

As Volodymyr Zelensky’s troops continue their push to the west, they are accused of using chemical warfare on Ukrainian troops.

Kyiv says that Russia is now using a mysterious gas similar to the one used in World War I on the front lines of battles, to choke Ukrainian soldiers.

According to Colonel Artem Valasiuk, the Ukraine’s Support Forces Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Command, Kyiv forces were unable to identify the chemical composition.

Vlasiuk said to The Kyiv Independent that Ukraine is currently unable identify the majority gas used on the battlefield, as opposed to previous months where it was able to diagnose approximately half the chemicals.

The colonel said: “Of 323 cases recorded of Russia’s attacks on October, almost all incidents except 15 were ‘unidentified.’

As Russia continues its successful westward push, gas warfare is being used to force Ukrainian troops out of their strongholds.

Video footage shows Russian forces “smoking out” Ukrainian troops on the frontline by using gas.

Vlasiuk, a former Ukrainian minister of defence, has called for the purchase of more expensive Western detectors that can cost up to PS460,000 in order to detect the toxic agents used by Vladimir Putin’s forces.

Vlasiuk stated: “We are able to detect tear gas. However, if an enemy uses something more complex, newer or a mixture that is similar but not tear-gas, we cannot identify it.”

According to reports, Ukraine lacks the equipment needed to detect chemical weapons used by Russia.

This mysterious new gas is a mystery after Russia used banned gas agents during the ongoing Ukraine conflict.

Ukraine accused Russia previously of more than 4,600 attacks of gas on the battlefield, since the start of the full-scale war in 2022.

These include tear gas as well as ammonia, and chloropicrin which was used in the trenches during the First World War.

Chloropicrinthe can be deadly at high doses, as it attacks the soft tissues in the respiratory system.

Skin irritation and vomiting are symptoms of poisoning.

The detectors play a vital role in determining war crimes.

Even if the agents are non-lethal (tear gas, for instance), the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield is in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993.

The post-Cold-War disarmament agreement bans the use of chemical weapons and requires countries to eliminate them.

The Russian troops have not concealed their use of chemical weaponry.

Andrey Filatov, a journalist for the RT news agency, showed in a broadcast how Russian troops “smoked” out a Ukrainian machine-gunner from a location near Avdiivka.

Here you can see the mask the machine gunner held.

The packaging of the cartridges.

“Here [you see] the gas-grenade we dropped …”

Separately the Russian neo Nazi military unit Rusich used chemical weapons to attack Ukrainian positions.

They boasted, “We’re throwing chloropicrin on the Ukrainian strongholds.”

RUSSIA’S CHEMICIAL HISTORY

In the early part of this year, Putin’s forces were accused by Ukrainian soldiers of launching horrific chemical attacks.

Russian troops allegedly sent drones to the frontline every day, dropping banned packages containing tear gas and dangerous chemicals onto unsuspecting soldiers.

According to a senior commander, the terrifying use of tactical drones forced Ukrainian fighters into carrying gas masks in the trenches.

Chemical weapons convention prohibits the use of any form of gaseous chemical in war.

Russia’s use of chemical weapons is a chilling history, especially when targeting people who tyrant Putin considers a threat to power.

Alexander Litvinenko, a Russian defector who lived in London at the time, was poisoned by polonium and claimed that Putin had ordered it.

In 2018, Salisbury was the site of a Novichok poisoning of former GRU agent Sergei Skripal, his daughter Yulia and their son Yulia.

The police investigating the anti-terror attack discovered that the nerve agent was Novichok military grade, manufactured in Russia. This discovery has sparked a new wave of concern about the production and use by the country of chemical weapons.

Some Kremlin critics, such as Alexei Navalny or Ilya Yashin, have told their supporters that they believe they were poisoned in chemical attacks ordered to them by Putin.

The Geneva Protocol of 2525 bans the use of toxic gas in war

The Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use of Asphyxiating or Poisonous Gases and of Bacteriological methods of Warfare, signed in Geneva on 17th June 1925 and entering into force on the 8th February 1928, was originally signed by 38 states. France was the first to ratify the Protocol in May 1926.