Lewisite as a bad trip result

Ukraine is raising outcry on Lewisite usage by Russian army.

While being a slightly less weird than reports on ClCN by Ukrainian army, it’s still looks more like a bad trip than something real.

Why?

First, chemical weapons are inefficient. Why else did they saw only quite a limited usage during WWII?

(yes, they WERE actually used by Wehrmacht, to kill defenders of Ajimushkai quarries and Odessa catacombs)

Even before WWII, it was estimated that more chemical shells would be required to suppress defenses than common HE ones. And chemical shells were much more dangerous to transport and hold.

Since that time, artillery became times more precise, and density of personnel much less. But modern gases became more poisonous as well? Yes, but no. They become SO MUCH poisonous that it requires 10 times more agent in gross than it’s estimated by just poison effect, or else significant parts of attacked area would not became contaminated at all!

Lewisite production has stopped somewhere around WWII, for after it organophosphorus became a mainstream in chemical weapons. The only possible remains of Lewisite stocks should be located somewhere in USA. So any Lewisite munition … well, THAT OLD Lewisite munition should be for 76-mm guns, which are nearly out of usage now! Okay, let’s imagine that some 152-mm Lewisite shells were produced, say, in 1963 (actually, Lewisite stocks were deemed obsoleted and gradually destroyed since 1961). Transporting, stocking and using 60-years cans with Lewisite should be more dangerous for Russia than for Ukraine!

And using well-known agent would result in instant proofs; at least a day has passed, we see no proofs. It’s a guarantee that no proofs exits.

Someone in Ukrainian HQ should use drugs with care. Next time his bad trip could use to an alien invasion report!