Russian forces are deploying an internationally banned choking gas to drive Ukrainian forces from their trenches, the State Department confirmed Thursday.

Moscow has been using the lung-damaging agent Chloropicrin, first created as a poison gas in World War I, in violation of the International Chemical Weapons Convention arms control treaty.

In the case of Russia’s 26-month-old war on Ukraine, the purpose of the gas is to force Kyiv’s forces to break cover so they can be targeted with conventional weapons, such as artillery and gunfire.

This tactic of creating no safe hiding space for adversaries is highly controversial and internationally condemned.

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