INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukrainian officials accused Russia at the weekend of using phosphorus chemical bombs in the eastern Donbas region, while a separate air
strike on a monastery sheltering civilians wounded 30.International law prohibits the use of white phosphorus shells in heavily populated
civilian areas but allows them in open spaces to be used as cover for troops.Oleksi Biloshytsky, head of police in Popasna, around 100
the Nazis called a 'flaming onion' and that's what the Russcists [amalgamation of 'Russians' and 'fascists'] are dropping on our towns
Indescribable suffering and fires," he wrote on Facebook.It was not immediately possible to verify the comments.Further south, bombs struck
the Sviatoguirsk monastery, where nearly 1,000 civilians were sheltering at the weekend, wounding 30 people, the Ukrainian public prosecutor
said at the weekend.And on Saturday night, a train evacuating people from the Donbas to the western city of Lviv was shelled, according to
Donetsk military commander Pavlo Kirilenko.One person was killed and another wounded, he said.The Luhansk and Donetsk regions of eastern
Ukraine, collectively known as the Donbas, were partially controlled by Moscow-backed separatists even before the full-scale Russian
invasion of Ukraine on Feb
