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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to the world Tuesday to respond to Russia's use of a poisonous substance in Mariupol.
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to the world Tuesday to respond to Russia's use of a poisonous substance in Mariupol.
"Given the repeated threats by Russian propagandists to use chemical weapons against the Mariupol defenders and given the repeated use by the Russian army, for example, of phosphorus munitions in Ukraine, the world must react now," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to the nation Tuesday.
Phosphorus munitions cause horrendous burns but are not classed as chemical weapons.
Zelenskyy said experts were still trying to determine what had been used in Mariupol.
