At a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council, the thesis was voiced that during the storming of Mariupol, the occupiers could use tear gas in combination with chemicals. This statement was made by the US Permanent Representative to this international organization Michael Carpenter, Ukrinform reports..

Recall, on the evening of April 11, fighters of the Azov regiment stated that in Mariupol, Russian troops dropped a poisonous substance of unknown origin from a UAV.

The main symptoms among the victims were dizziness, suffocation, flushing of the face, high blood pressure, dryness of the nasopharynx, mucous membranes of the eyes, tachycardia.

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The Permanent Representative urged the expert commission within the framework of the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to urgently systematize all available information on Russian war crimes.

A few days ago, the commander of the Marines from the encircled Mariupol proposed two possible scenarios for rescuing the trapped civilians and military.