The frontlines of Russia’s war in Ukraine have become infested with rats and mice, reportedly spreading disease that causes soldiers to vomit and bleed from their eyes, crippling combat capability and recreating the grisly conditions that plagued troops in the trench warfare of World War I.
Russia is already using chemical weapons in Ukraine, although it seems to be CS gas instead of mustard gas (this is still illegal under the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 which Russia has signed).
Russia carried out 81 chemical attacks in December, according to an official statement by Ukraine’s General Staff on December 27th. Ukrainian soldiers have reported attacks with mysterious chemicals, such as a “caustic and flammable gas” described to CNN reporters, and the RG-VO grenade which the General Staff say is filled with an “unknown chemical substance.” This brings the total number of claimed chemical attacks to 465. There is a real threat here, but it is not what it seems.
Russia is already using chemical weapons in Ukraine, although it seems to be CS gas instead of mustard gas (this is still illegal under the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 which Russia has signed).
– https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/12/29/what-we-know-about-russian-chemical-weapon-attacks/?sh=861601b55455