War in Ukraine: UK ‘working urgently’ to verify reports of possible chemical attack in Mariupol
Sky News says the UK is “working urgently” to verify details following unconfirmed reports of a Russian chemical attack in a besieged city in Ukraine, the foreign secretary has said.
Liz Truss said any confirmed use of chemical weapons in Mariupol would be a “callous escalation” of the war.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, used his nightly video address to warn that Russia could deploy such outlawed weapons, but he did not say they had already done so.
“We treat this with the utmost seriousness,” he said.
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