President Putin wants to turn Ukrainian cities into “Aleppos”, a Ukrainian official has said, claiming that Russia used white phosphorus in bombing attacks.
Markiyan Lubkivsky, from the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, warned that Putin was replicating Russian tactics from Syria and spoke of “more terrible attacks” on Ukraine.
“The plan of Putin is to make from Ukrainian cities numerous Aleppos,” Lubkivsky told the BBC, referring to the Syrian city that suffered mass destruction during its civil war. “The situation is quite critical.”
He said attacks on Lutsk, a city in western Ukraine, had involved the use of phosphorus bombs. International law prohibits the use of white phosphorous shells in heavily populated civilian areas but allows them in open spaces to be used as
