Russia: Chemical Weapons
Commons · Question 48908 · Tabled 29 Apr 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record
Answered 6 May 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he is taking to help prevent Russian forces increasing the use of banned gas weapons in Ukraine.
Answer
Answered by Luke Pollard, 6 May 2025
Russia’s use of chemical weapons on the front lines in Ukraine is wholly unacceptable. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has published two reports confirming the presence of CS gas in samples collected by Ukraine from the bat...