Later the same day, President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Ukrainian forces had carried out the attack.The local partisan group Atesh also claimed that the attack had hit Russian military equipment, as well as the command post.In recent months, Ukraine has intensified its attacks on occupied Crimea, targeting Russian military assets in and around the Black Sea.Ukrainian forces on April 15 carried out a missile attack on a command post in Crimea where top Russian offices were deployed, a military intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent.Reuters: Ukraine says Russia's use of illegal tear gas on battlefield is increasingRussian forces have been increasing their usage of riot control gas banned on the battlefield, Colonel Serhii Pakhomov, the acting head of the Ukrainian military's atomic, biological, and chemical defense forces, told Reuters in an interview published on April 18.Ukrainian military officials have previously said that Russia is deploying chemical weapons on the battlefield in violation of the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
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