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Dutch and German intelligence services believe Russia is intensifying its use of chemical weapons in Ukraine, including the deployment of the chemical agent chloropicrin, which can be deadly.
The assessment was revealed by the Dutch defense ministry on Friday, July 4. It said the conclusion on Russia’s use of chloropicrin is shared by the Dutch military and general intelligence services, MIVD and AIVD, and Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND.
Chloropicrin is banned in war under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention.
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