Ukraine soldiers describe ‘almost daily’ illegal gas attacks as invaders seek to dislodge them from embedded positions
Russia has been accused of systematically using illegal chemical gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers.
Ukrainian troops told the Daily Telegraph that they have been subjected to regular attacks from small drones dropping teargas and other chemicals.
The use of such substances, which is known as CS, is banned during wartime under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
Moscow was accused of using chemical weapons in a drone assault on the port of Mariupol in the early stages of its invasion in February 2022.
Is this not the shit that American cops use on American civilians like…all the time? Genuine question, would like to know if I’m wrong about that.
The Geneva convention doesn’t apply to your own citizens, just to war. The US made sure they had that exception in hand
When they formally banned tear gasses (including this specific one) in 1993, since the Geneva convention only had a loose definition, the US again reserved an exception for domestic use.
So yes. The US has promised they wouldn’t use tear gas against any other country because that’s inhumane and too horrible, regardless of the reason for war. But it’s fine if they use it on protestors. That’s totally fine, they shouldn’t have gotten too rowdy.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/us/military-tear-gas-protesters-trnd/index.html
Yep, teargas, which is illegal to use in war, is regularly used by US cops against its own citizens.
Difference in usage. Tear gas, in a policing context, is meant to be an alternative to lethal force. Tear gas, in a military context, is meant as an enabler of lethal force - ie one makes you suffer so they don’t have to kill you, the other makes you suffer because suffering makes it easier to kill you.
Also why the Russians have so much of it - it’s legal for usage in civilian contexts.
Yea but thats not a war so its fine