{"id":2237106,"date":"2024-05-04T10:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T14:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-accuses-russia-of-illegally-using-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T10:28:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T14:28:04","slug":"u-s-accuses-russia-of-illegally-using-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-accuses-russia-of-illegally-using-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. accuses Russia of using chemical weapons in Ukraine illegally"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-accuses-russia-of-illegally-using-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2237106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The United States accused Russia this\u2064 week of illegally deploying chemical \u2064weapons in Ukraine\u200b and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-considers-reinstating-burma-sanctions-axed-by-top-asia-adviser\/\" title=\"Biden Considers Reinstating Burma Sanctions Axed by Top Asia Adviser\">imposed sanctions<\/a> on\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">numerous individuals<\/a>\u200b and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russias-enemies-critics-blast-biden-for-not-halting-russian-pipeline-like-trump-did-caved-to-russias-demands\/\" title=\"Russia\u2019s Enemies, Critics Blast Biden For Not Halting Russian Pipeline Like Trump Did: \u2018Caved To Russia\u2019s Demands\u2019\">entities involved<\/a>. \u200bThe\u200d State Department\u200b stated that\u200d Russia&#8217;s actions violated the Chemical \u2063and Biological Weapons Control\u2062 and \u2063Warfare Elimination Act. Click the link for more details: https:\/\/www.state.gov\/imposing-new-measures-on-russia-for-its-full-scale-war-and-use-of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/syrian-survivors-of-chemical-weapons-attack-file-criminal-complaint-against-syrian-officials\/\" title=\"Syrian Survivors Of Chemical Weapons Attack File Criminal Complaint Against Syrian Officials\">-chemical-weapons-<\/a>against-ukraine-2\/  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The United States accused Russia this week of illegally deploying chemical weapons on the battlefield in Ukraine and announced the sanctioning of hundreds of individuals and entities tied to the weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/imposing-new-measures-on-russia-for-its-full-scale-war-and-use-of-chemical-weapons-against-ukraine-2\/\">said<\/a> that Russia violated the\u00a0Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (CBW Act) by using the chemical weapon chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops.<\/p>\n<p>Chloropicrin is a \u201cchoking agent\u201d that was commonly used during World War I, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/02\/world\/europe\/us-russia-chemical-weapons-ukraine.html\">reported<\/a>, and is banned from being used in war, according to the treaty that even Russia signed.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department said that the use of the chemical weapons \u201cis not an isolated incident and is probably driven by Russian forces\u2019 desire to dislodge Ukrainian forces from fortified positions and achieve tactical gains on the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions were being enacted against individuals and entities connected to Russia\u2019s chemical and biological weapons programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States will continue to use the tools at its disposal to disrupt support for Russia\u2019s military-industrial base and curtail Russia\u2019s use of the international financial system to further its war against Ukraine,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWe continue to stand in solidarity with Russians striving for a more democratic future and with Ukrainians defending their homeland from Russia\u2019s aggression.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1714913665807000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3lvFbT1cuWHsd60JGF9_or\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ukraine has reported well over a thousand instances of suspected chemical attacks by Russian forces since Russia\u2019s invasion more than 26 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Times reported that the use of the illegal weapons has accelerated recently as Russia looks to break through lines and make rapid gains before long-awaited U.S. military assistance arrives on the frontlines which is expected to a significant boost for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, the U.S. accused Russia of unlawfully using chemical weapons in Ukraine. In response, the State Department sanctioned numerous individuals and entities associated with these weapons. The actions were deemed a violation of the 1991 Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2237107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/gas-mask.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/gas-mask.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}