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It's Thursday, the 17th of July. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker,

your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed. First up, disturbing news from the front lines of the war in Ukraine, where the Putin regime is reportedly intensifying

their use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian forces.

Later in the show, as a fragile ceasefire holds between Syria's Druze community and the governing

regime in Damascus, Syria's Islamist president is lushing out at Israel over their strikes on the capital,

accusing leaders of Jerusalem of seeking, quote, chaos and destruction.

We'll have the latest details.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

I want to begin with one of the more disturbing developments of the war in Ukraine to date,

as a new Dutch intelligence report

confirms that Russian forces are deploying chemical weapons, including a World War I era chemical

agent that's been banned under international law. It's hard to believe that Putin wouldn't

adhere to international law. Who would have thunk it? In a Fourth of July report,

the Netherlands Military Intelligence and Security Service, known as the MIVD, because of course

they have an acronym, corroborated by Germany's foreign intelligence agency, detailed how Russian

troops are using drones to drop gas grenades on Ukrainian battlefield positions.

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