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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Molly Quell

Dutch intelligence services say Russia has stepped up use of banned chemical weapons in Ukraine

Ukraine-NL-Chemical-Weapons - (Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Two Dutch intelligence agencies said on Friday that Russia is increasing its use of prohibited chemical weapons in Ukraine, including the World War I-era poison gas chloropicrin.

The Netherlands’ military intelligence and the security service, together with the German intelligence service, found that the use of prohibited chemical weapons by the Russian military had become “standardized and commonplace” in Ukraine.

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