Ukraine reported five civilian casualties in Lysychansk in the separatist-affected Luhansk region due to Russian shelling including two deaths and three injuries. The capital city of Kyiv has announced a curfew until tomorrow. Wednesday, in light of increased Russian attacks. A Russian missile strike on a shopping mall in Kyiv killed eight people on Sunday as Russia claimed that Ukraine was concealing ‘rockets’ in the civil construction.
The Russian military has also been accused of violently dispersing protests against their occupation in Kherson city in eastern Ukraine, where at least one person is claimed dead by Ukrainian authorities. The deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has stated that evacuation efforts are currently focused on humanitarian evacuations of civilians out of the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol. Russia had demanded that Ukraine surrender Mariupol by Monday, which Ukraine rejected.
Russia Allegedly Uses ‘Phosphorous Bombs’, Planning Chemical Weapons Use, Says Biden
The United States and Ukraine have alleged the use of chemical weapons by Russia in the ongoing conflict. Oleksiy Bilochitsky, the police chief of Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, said that Russia used banned phosphorous bombs in the city. Phosphorous bombs have been banned by the 1997 Geneva convention and can cause fires to spread rapidly.
Oleksiy Biloshitskiy reports that the #Russian occupiers had recorded another use of banned phosphorus ammunition in #Kramatorsk. pic.twitter.com/h2A8YZz7wQ
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 22, 2022
US President Joe Biden has also claimed that there are ‘clear signs’ that Putin is ‘weighing up’ the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine. He based this on the fact that Russia has accused the United States in the UN Security Council of developing chemical and biological weapons near its borders in Ukrainian territory.
Biden claimed that such allegations were setting the stage for the use of the weapons by Russia itself:
“They are also suggesting that Ukraine has biological and chemical weapons in Ukraine. That’s a clear sign he’s considering using both of those. He’s already used chemical weapons in the past, and we should be careful of what’s about to come.”
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