Containers
with chlorine from Germany and smoke grenades produced in Salisbury,
UK were found in the liberated territories of Syria's Eastern Ghouta,
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has stated.
“In
the liberated areas of Eastern Ghouta, Syrian government troops have
found containers with chlorine – the most horrible kind of chemical
weapons – from Germany, and also smoke grenades produced – please
pay attention [to this] – in the city of Salisbury, the UK,”
Zakharova told a news conference in Moscow on Thursday.
The
findings undermine "the faith in humaneness” of some
states’ leadership, who “give such orders and make such
decisions," Zakharova added.
Prior to
the alleged chemical incident in Douma, which was used by the US, the
UK and France as a pretext for striking Syria last Saturday, Russia
had repeatedly warned about possible provocations by the militants,
according to the spokesperson. Moscow had also sent data to the
Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on
chemical-weapons production facilities in the liberated areas of
Eastern Ghouta.
Western
leaders’ allegations that the Syrian government was behind the
Douma attack were based on “open sources” and information on
social media, including the reports of so-called civil defense group,
the White Helmets. The group is believed to be linked to militants
and operates in the areas under their control.
The
airstrike occurred just ahead of the arrival of an OPCW fact-finding
mission tasked with establishing whether any chemical attack had
taken place. The team of chemical-watchdog experts still can’t
reach the site of the purported attack, as militants have hampered
their work, according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail
Bogdanov.
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