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Sun 13 March 2022:
Russian forces have been accused of using illegal phosphorus weapons in an overnight attack in Ukraine.
Ukraine’s human rights ombudswoman has accused Russia of using banned phosphorus munitions in an overnight attack on the town of Popasna in Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region.
The ombudswoman, Liudmila Denisova, shared a photograph purporting to show the alleged attack, but did not say if Ukraine had concrete evidence.
“The bombing of a civilian city by the Russian attackers with these weapons is a war crime and a crime against humanity according to the Rome convention,” she said in an online statement. There was no reaction from Russia.
Earlier authorities confirmed at least 35 people were killed and dozens injured in a Russian airstrike on a military base just 15 miles from the Polish border.
One of Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponents in Russia, Leonid Volkov, today warned he could be “crazy enough” to use nuclear weapons.
The accusations come after Polish President Andrzej Duda said Sunday the use of chemical weapons by Moscow in its invasion of Ukraine would be ‘game-changing’ and require a rethink of the conflict by NATO.
If Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘uses any weapons of mass destruction, (it) will be game-changing in the whole thing… for close alliances’, Duda told BBC TV.
In that case, NATO, which Poland joined in 1999, should seriously consider its further moves, the president added.
‘Because then it starts to be dangerous, not only for Europe, not only for our part of Europe… but for the whole world,’ he added, speaking in Polish with an English translation.
Duda said Putin would resort to any means especially as he had already lost this war ‘politically’, while in military terms he is no longer capable of winning it.
On Sunday, the war got close to the Polish border as 35 people died and 134 were injured in a Russian attack on a military base in Yavoriv in western Ukraine, about 12 miles from Poland.
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