State Dept: Russia used chloropicrin against Ukrainian forces -- ETA: Lt Gen Kirillov (head of Russian nuc/bio/chem weapons) killed by bomb in Moscow

[essentialsaltes]

Imposing New Measures on Russia for its Full-Scale War and Use of Chemical Weapons Against Ukraine​

The Department of State has made a determination under the CBW Act that Russia has used the chemical weapon chloropicrin against Ukrainian forces in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

In coordination with the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State is designating three Russian Federation government entities associated with Russia’s chemical and biological weapons programs and four Russian companies providing support to such entities. The Department of the Treasury is separately designating three entities and two individuals involved in procuring items for military institutes involved in Russia’s chemical and biological weapons programs, pursuant to a separate WMD non-proliferation authority.

 

[AlexB23]

Imposing New Measures on Russia for its Full-Scale War and Use of Chemical Weapons Against Ukraine​

The Department of State has made a determination under the CBW Act that Russia has used the chemical weapon chloropicrin against Ukrainian forces in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

In coordination with the Department of the Treasury, the Department of State is designating three Russian Federation government entities associated with Russia’s chemical and biological weapons programs and four Russian companies providing support to such entities. The Department of the Treasury is separately designating three entities and two individuals involved in procuring items for military institutes involved in Russia’s chemical and biological weapons programs, pursuant to a separate WMD non-proliferation authority.

Man, this is sickening. Russia's leadership needs to be Putin jail. Russia signed the convention, yet then breaks the treaty?

Chart from Wikipedia, based on CWC: Chemical Weapons Convention

Alright, I'll stop with the puns, as this is a serious matter.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Kyiv behind killing of Russian general in Moscow, Ukrainian official says​

An explosion killed Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia’s nuclear defense forces, and his assistant in Moscow, Russia’s Investigative Committee said.

Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, chief of Russia’s nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces, is the highest-ranking Russian military official to be killed outside of combat since the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Russia’s Investigative Committee said Tuesday that Kirillov, 54, was killed alongside his assistant when an explosive device on a parked scooter detonated near the entrance of a residential building in the capital.

The Ukrainian official said Tuesday that Kirillov was an “absolutely legitimate target since he gave orders to use banned chemical weapons against the Ukrainian military.”

In May, the State Department sanctioned Kirillov’s unit after determining that Russia used chloropicrin, a choking agent, against Ukrainian troops, in violation of Moscow’s commitments under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. [i.e. original OP]

Kirillov played a prominent role in spreading the Kremlin’s misleading claims that the United States had established biowarfare labs in Ukraine — claims that were repeated Tuesday by top-ranking officials in tributes to the general.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Russia says suspect detained in the killing of a senior general in Moscow​

According to a statement by the FSB, the [Uzbek] suspect said himself that he was recruited by Ukrainian special services.