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Russia’s White Phosphorus Attacks in Ukraine

Russia exploits legal loopholes to deploy white phosphorus in Ukraine. The nation continues to suffer as international law struggles to keep pace.

https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russias-white-phosphorus-attacks-in-ukraine-11908


Sep 24, 2025 17:50 Updated Sep 26, 2025 14:26 Jess Daly


Russia is escalating its chemical warfare in Ukraine—a campaign designed, in the words of Europe’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas, “to cause as much pain and suffering so that Ukraine would surrender. And, you know, it’s really … unbearable.”

In July 2025, Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) reported that the Russian forces used more than 10,000 incidents of chemical weapons use against the Ukrainian Armed Forces since
the full-scale invasion began. Kyiv has now handed the evidence to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.
From chloropicrin to white phosphorus

The picture painted by allies is stark. Dutch Defence Minister Ruben Brekelmans warns that Russia is deploying a broad arsenal of chemical agents in a systematic and large-scale way, including chloropicrin—a World War I–era choking agent that can be lethal in enclosed spaces.


Russia's Chemical Warfare in Ukraine and Beyond
Dec 19, 2024 17:48



report that Moscow is pouring money into chemical weapons research, expanding labs, and recruiting scientists to sustain the programme. The expansion goes beyond chemical weapons, reaching into incendiary arsenals as well.

A September 2025 investigation by RFE/RL’s Schemes unit adds another layer: the sanctioned Scientific Research Institute for Applied Chemistry (NIIPH) has stepped up production using domestic supply chains of chemical weapons and, despite sanctions, imported a key precursor for white phosphorus from China—a substance prohibited in civilian areas under international law...........................