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Richard Martin-Nielsenrmartinnielsen
2025-06-20

The @opcw reports on to to investigate allegations used in war:
“The results of the analyses of the samples [from a location close to an observation post of the Border Guard Service of Ukraine near the village of Mariivka] by two OPCW designated laboratories […] indicate that both grenades […] contained the riot control agent CS and/or its precursors and degradation products.”

opcw.org/sites/default/files/d

Richard Martin-Nielsenrmartinnielsen
2025-02-18

@krieger22 Right, and and also wrote a piece for @RUSI about what next steps might be: rusi.org/explore-our-research/

Richard Martin-Nielsenrmartinnielsen
2025-02-15

“Pasaulinė cheminių ginklų priežiūros institucija penktadienį pranešė, kad devyniuose mėginiuose, kuriuos jai perdavė iš karo su fronto linijos, rado draudžiamų CS dujų, naudojamų malšinant riaušes.”
tv3.lt/naujiena/uzsienis/opcw-

Richard Martin-Nielsenrmartinnielsen
2025-02-15

coverage of report: “The world's chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said it had once again found traces of tear gas on the frontline with in 's central-east region.
The use of riot control agents such as tear gas as a method of warfare is prohibited under the , the non-proliferation treaty overseen by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ().”

reuters.com/world/europe/new-t

Richard Martin-Nielsenrmartinnielsen
2025-02-15

This is not the first time that the @opcw has confirmed that grenades containing have been used on the battlefield in . Russia's repeated and ongoing violations of the are alarming.
Member States must hold to account.

opcw.org/media-centre/news/202

Richard Martin-Nielsenrmartinnielsen
2025-02-14

@opcw
And a link to the report itself: opcw.org/sites/default/files/d

Header of OPCW official report: OPCW Technical Secretariat S/2370/2025 14 February 2025 ENGLISH only NOTE BY THE TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT REPORT OF THE OPCW TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE VISIT ON THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED OUT IN SUPPORT OF A REQUEST BY UKRAINE (TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE VISIT TAV/05/24 AND TAV/01/25) 1. The OPCW Technical Secretariat (the Secretariat), within its framework to provide assistance under Article X of the Chemical Weapons Convention (the Convention), and under the provision of subparagraph 38(e) of Article VIII of the Convention, received a request from Ukraine for technical assistance, in relation to samples that it had in its custody as well as documentation and evidence related to their collection. Ukraine reported to the Secretariat that these samples had been collected following three separate incidents involving toxic chemicals, on 2 October 2024 near the village of Mariivka; and on 12 and 14 October 2024 near the village of Illinka, in the Dnipropetrovsk region. […]
Richard Martin-Nielsenrmartinnielsen
2025-02-14

Press release: “ report confirms presence of toxic chemical 2-Chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile, known as CS, related to three alleged incidents that took place along confrontation lines in Dnipropetrovsk region in October 2024.”

opcw.org/media-centre/news/202
@opcw

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