Russia systematically uses ammunition equipped with dangerous chemicals – AFU General Staff

The russian federation continues to attack the Defense Forces of Ukraine with special ammunition equipped with dangerous chemicals.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has stated this, the Ukrainian News agency reports.

"The enemy uses ammunition such as K-51 and RG-VO, which are means of combating riots and are prohibited for use as means of warfare. In addition, a significant proportion of ammunition contains dangerous chemical compounds of an unidentified type," the report says.

In March 2025, the radiation, chemical, biological reconnaissance units of the Support Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine recorded 767 cases of the use of such ammunition. In total, since February 2023, 7,730 cases of the use of dangerous chemicals have been recorded.

Since February 2023, the use of dangerous chemicals by the russians has become systemic, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine notes.

Recall that at the end of January 2024, analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) stated that the russians began to use chemical weapons more often against the Ukrainian military.

Prior to this, the Center for Research of Captured and Advanced Weapons and Military Equipment reported that in December 2023, the occupiers first used RG-Vo grenades, which contain the banned chloroacetophenone.

We also reported that in November 2023, the russians used the poisonous substance chloropicrin against the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the front lines in the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions.

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