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    Re: Use of chemical weopons in Ukraine? Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on March 7, 2023, 7:01 am, in reply to "Use of chemical weopons in Ukraine?"

    It's always difficult to tell with these videos and also given none of us have any experience of actual chemical weapons in the battlefield (I assume).

    Having it cut off so quickly is usually a red flag; even if the rest of it is gruesome it shows that it wasn't a short acting job. Also the lack of concern of the other people, including the person filming is a bit odd. Presumably the person who went to aid the second soldier at the gap in the wall would also have been affected by the chemical but none of this is shown.

    I don't doubt that they would do this though. The wide spread video of someone's hand pointing to a drone equipped with cansiters and speaking as if they are AFU is again pretty easy to fake and there's been no real documentation of these drones being used/downed.

    There was that other video of two Russians crawling through a canal or ditch getting hit by a drone grenade and then convulsing as if affected by CW although I believe that was disproved (still pretty horrible to watch but it wasn't a CW incident). It also disappeared from social media which suggests it didn't have any legs.

    You would think if they have been employed and caused casualties then the bodies would have been preserved as evidence and then the Russians would be shouting very loudly about it.

    Either way it's worrying; if it's real then it's an escalation. If it's faked for propaganda purposes then they have to think there are plans to use them, or they have already been used without cameras being present.

    I guess we will learn more depending on how much noise this stoery makes.

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