The mayor of Mariupol said Russian troops have left more than 10,000 civilians dead, their corpses “carpeted through the streets.”
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine investigated a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on besieged Mariupol, as Western officials warned Tuesday that any use of chemical weapons by Russia would be a serious escalation ofThwarted in his apparent ambition to overrun the Ukrainian capital, Russian President Vladimir Putin is now building up forces for a new offensive in the eastern Donbas region, and insisted Tuesday that his campaign would achieve its goals.
In the face of stiff resistance by Ukrainian forces bolstered by Western weapons, Russian forces have increasingly relied on bombarding cities, flattening many urban areas and leaving thousands of people dead. In other areas, they have pulled back to regroup. He said that Russia’s economy and financial system withstood the blow from what he called the Western sanctions “blitz” and claimed the sanctions would backfire by driving up prices for essentials such as fertilizer, leading to food shortages and increase migration flows to the West.
But Eduard Basurin was quoted by the Interfax news agency on Tuesday as saying that the separatist forces “haven’t used any chemical weapons in Mariupol.”
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