MojNews_ "We have sent 10 anti-tank missiles to Ukraine for every Russian tank," a State Department spokesman said Tuesday evening.

He said military shipments were arriving in Ukraine every day to ensure the strength of Ukrainian forces against Russia.

A State Department spokesman claimed:

The Kremlin believed that the Russian army could enter Kiev within 48 hours, but failed.

He said:

We continue to liaise with Ukraine over reports of Russian use of chemical weapons in Mariupol.

While the Moscow government had been warning for weeks about the possibility of the Ukrainian army taking action to stage a chemical attack on the country, Kiev and the West keyed in the start of the scenario early Tuesday morning.

In the last minutes of Monday evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that Russian forces might have used chemical weapons in Ukraine.

Zelenskyy's remarks came as unconfirmed reports Monday suggested the use of chemical weapons in the southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol.

At the same time, Turkish journalists reported that the Ukrainian embassy in Ankara had claimed in a statement:

About an hour ago, Russian forces used a drone of unknown origin against Ukrainian military and civilians in the city of Mariupol, which was fired from a drone. Victims have respiratory failure.