While it was already accused of using tear gas in its three-year war in Ukraine, German and Dutch intelligence agencies say ...

The main conclusion is that we can confirm Russia is intensifying its use of chemical weapons,” Brekelmans said. He warned ...

Russia denies using the weapons, as does Ukraine; International body says previous accusations not “substantiated.” ...

A Russian neo-Nazi unit has confirmed the use of banned chemical weapons against Ukrainian soldiers.

Chloropicrin is banned in war under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), to which Moscow is a signatory. Russia is already widely using tear gas, the Dutch Defense Ministry said, and called the ...

The use of prohibited chemical weapons by the Russian military had become "standardized and commonplace" in Ukraine, Dutch ...

German and Dutch intelligence agencies have accused Russia of increasingly using dangerous chemical weapons such as ...

Dutch and German intelligence agencies have gathered evidence of widespread Russian use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine ...

Igor Kirillov, who was chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside his apartment building on Tuesday when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off.

A Russian general in charge of the country’s nuclear and chemical weapons protection forces was killed in a bombing in southeastern Moscow on Tuesday morning. The general, Igor Kirillov, was ...

A man has been arrested in connection with the assassination of the head of Russia‘s chemical, radiological and biological weapons unit, Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov.

There have been previous allegations of Russian use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. The US said in May 2024 that Russia had used the chloropicrin agent, adding that it was not an isolated incident.