GermanHerman
Active Member
I agree, the use of chemical agents would only realy make sense at the heavily fortified combatliens in the east but besides antagonizing the world even more there are civilians around these villages that are mostly ethnic russians.This is extremely serious and can be a major escalation in this conflict. Would Russia use chemical weapons? when and at what stage will Russia decide to use chemical agents? I don’t see them using it because it will tarnish what ever opportunity they have left to push their own narrative and can also make countries that sympathise with them turn against them..
The only reason to actualy use them would be as a "show of force" but to who and why would that be necessary?
Russia states more limited war goal to 'liberate' Donbass
In a scaled-back formulation of its war goals, Russia said on Friday that the first phase of its military operation was mostly complete and it would focus on completely "liberating" Ukraine's breakaway eastern Donbass region.
www.reuters.com
If this report from Reuters is correct russia seems to limit its goals further.
Given the fact that we saw little to no movement in the North and Ukraine taking back territory in the South this is not realy a surprise."The combat potential of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been considerably reduced, which ... makes it possible to focus our core efforts on achieving the main goal, the liberation of Donbass."
I think Odessa is no longer threatend which would free up some more troops to dedicate towards counter attacks toward kherson.