Colombian soldier wearing gas mask during alleged use of tear gas (or something similar) by the Russians against Ukrainian positions in the Kreminna forest, constant shelling around the position. July 2024



by Hotrico

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  2. Just what was needed to complete that WWI aesthetics in 2024. We’ve already got trench warfare, propeller planes, and even some WWI weapons that have seen action in this war.

  4. The UK is at the forefront of gas mask production. UK government needs to send all its stocks and get producing again

  6. This is LITERALLY the Iran-Iraq war: European Edition. Trenches, gas attacks, gas masks, modern planes, tanks, artillery from the 70s and 80s, soon one of these guys are going to start human wave attacks

  7. Well, that’s a mild flashback. Back in 2001 I guarded a chemical weapons depot and had to mask up a decent amount (typically when the idiot forklift drivers would knock over a palette of fucking nerve agent). One time for over 12 hours.

    I will say though, when you know it’s a live agent, you get your mask on *quick* and get that seal right.

  8. Providing it is tear gas, people’s WW1 and Iraq-Iran war comments are pretty moot and alarmist. People from those wars would probably have ironically found tear gas quite relieving compared to the awful compounds used in WW1.

    I was tear gassed in training. Populations are tear gassed by ther own police. It’s uncomfortable but it doesn’t shut down your central nervous system and blister your skin

  9. To be clear this is an absolure violation of the Geneva Convention on chemical warfare.

    The reason the Russians use, and have previously used lacrimal agents is because the media reports them as tear gas – a commonly ussed riot surpression tool.

    However its crucial to be aware “tear gas” used in enclosed spaces can and will kill people via asphixiation. Its no better than any other form of chemical warfare. The concentrations used at war (i.e. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN) are not those used in civilian settings.

    Mustard gas, nerve agents, chlorine, cyclon b, tear gas. Be under no illusions, used aggessivley in warfare they have the same effect.

    Its punching low even for Russia here. The grenades they deploy are highly effective in clearing enclosed positions becaise it leaves defenders wifh a choice of suffocate or die…its fucking chemical warfare in 2024.

    Scum.

  10. Escalating to gas would be a strategic mistake for Russia, just as it was for Germany in WW1. The wind blows in favor of Ukraine, just as it did for France and Britain.

  13. I’m baffled why we can hear birds chirping with the close artillery and tear gas present.

  14. Translation:

    “Large scale Russian attack”

    “Look at what they did to all this”

    “With chemical gases and all BUT, we are ready”

  16. Usage of tear gas is nothing new. Russians use it to flush dudes out of bunkers/dugouts.

  17. For those wondering.

    People who wrote Geneva suggestions couldn’t be arsed specifying every type of chemical weapon that they banned.

    “Chemical Weapons Convention and 1925 Geneva Protocol, ban use of tear gas in warfare
    The 1925 Geneva Protocol categorized tear gas as a chemical warfare agent and banned its use in war shortly after World War I. The protocol was signed at a conference held in Geneva and took effect on Feb. 8, 1928, according to the United Nations website.

    However, the text of the protocol did not go into depth on what gases were banned.

    Under the protocol, the United States reserved the right to use riot control agents in cases of controlling rioting prisoners of war, situations where civilian casualties can be avoided. The U.S. could also use it in rescue missions to recover isolated personnel and outside of combat zones to “protect convoys from civil disturbances.”

  18. Damn as a Gen X’r, this definitely gives a surreal fpv of what my Great Grandfather went through. For the rest of you all, it would be your Great Great Grandfather’s! Just take a moment and think about that.

  22. They’ll probably start napalming soon, wouldn’t suprise me

  23. Fake? Just morning fog? I mean, putting on the gasmask over a hat. I don’t think a gasmask works really well this way.

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