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Donetsk Oblast governor: 'Too early to tell if Russia used chemical weapons in Mariupol.'

by The Kyiv Independent news desk April 12, 2022 6:31 PM 1 min read
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According to the Head of Donetsk Administration, Pavlo Kyrylenko, three people were injured on April 11 in Mariupol “as a result of an explosion of an unknown substance” that Russian forces distributed by a drone. “It is too early to say what substance it was and whether it can be classified as a chemical attack,” Kyrylenko says.

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