Pressure is mounting on the international community to respond to reports that Russia has employed the use of chemical weapons in the besieged city of Mariupol. It comes amid a renewed offensive by Russian forces in the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine. Shashank Joshi, The Economist’s defence editor, tells The World more evidence is needed to corroborate the reports.
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