MOSCOW, February 27. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military is using various toxic agents against Russian troops in Donbass, Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner private military company, said on Monday.

"As for the chemistry, it is actively used by Ukrainian army units: various phosphorus compounds and poisonous substances in powder and gaseous forms. They drop them with the help of munitions, from unmanned aerial vehicles and by other methods," the Wagner press office quoted Prigozhin as saying on its Telegram channel.

A captured Ukrainian soldier also told "about the experiments that foreign handlers conduct on Ukrainian servicemen," Prigozhin said.

These experiments are being carried out "to reduce the pain threshold and try to create the so-called universal soldier with the help of a drug-induced effect," he stressed.