{"id":274429,"date":"2025-07-19T10:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274429\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T10:01:25","slug":"russias-increasing-use-of-chemical-weapons-in-ukraine-unbearable-says-top-eu-diplomat-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/274429\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s increasing use of chemical weapons in Ukraine \u2018unbearable,\u2019 says top EU diplomat \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most countries around the world, including Russia, have signed a 1993 international convention banning the use, production, development or stockpiling of chemical weapons. Russia is one of 65 countries to have not only signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, but also ratified it.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas\u2019 comments add to a growing sense of alarm in EU capitals that Russia is escalating its campaign to subdue Ukraine, unleashing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-hits-kyiv-ukraine-massive-aerial-attack-after-trump-putin-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">larger and larger nightly attacks by missiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The worsening onslaught, which coincides with an ongoing summer offensive by Russia, prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to announce Monday that he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/14\/trump-sends-weapons-ukraine-00451109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support a bill penalizing Moscow<\/a> via powerful tariffs on Russian exports.<\/p>\n<p>However, the fact that Trump has said he would only approve the secondary sanctions against Russia after 50 days if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn\u2019t stop his assault of his own accord has led to disappointment in Europe and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s announcement that he will allow NATO to buy U.S. weapons for Ukraine is also sitting awkwardly with European officials. Asked about the move, Kallas said she welcomed the possibility of delivering more weapons to Ukraine, but added that Europe would \u201clike to see the U.S. share the burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, however, has said the U.S. would not keep financing Ukraine\u2019s defense. \u201cWe\u2019re not buying it, but we will manufacture it, and they\u2019re going to be paying for it,\u201d Trump said, referencing \u201cvery rich\u201d European allies.<\/p>\n<p>Kallas said: \u201cIf we pay for these weapons, it\u2019s our support, it\u2019s European support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most countries around the world, including Russia, have signed a 1993 international convention banning the use, production, development&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,2818,2596,2598,332,657,49,333,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-274429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-intelligence-services","10":"tag-kaja-kallas","11":"tag-missiles","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-ukraine","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-vladimir-putin","16":"tag-war-in-ukraine","17":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114879325101274135","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}