Pictures of Allegedly Attacked School in Idlib Are ‘Computer Graphics’: Zakharova

MOSCOW- The photos of an attacked school in Haas village, the Idlib province, have turned out to be computer graphics, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on her Facebook page on Friday according to Itar Tass.

“An expert analysis of the photos of the Haas village in Syria revealed that there had been no air strike at the local school and that there had been no casualties. The photos are the products of computer graphics, and the killed school children are a horrible fantasy of ‘activists’ from Al-Jazeera and The Independent,” Zakharova stressed.

 Zakharova recalled what French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault had told a news conference a day earlier on Thursday. He said that either Moscow or Damascus were to blame for the school attack in the Hass village in Idlib province.

“Decent people usually present their apologies in such cases. So we will see,” Zakharova stressed.

Video footage of an alleged airstrike published in foreign media is doctored up, it is more than ten separate fragments assembled together, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Thursday.

To check information of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Russian Defense Ministry has thoroughly analyzed all data recorders monitoring the air situation in the northern part of Syria.

On Thursday, the executive director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Anthony Lake claimed that as many as 22 children and six teachers were killed in an attack on a school in Idlib. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova condemned the attack on a school in Syria’s Idlib and called for an investigation into the bombing. She also said that international media “launched an attack” on Russia by claiming that Moscow and Damascus are behind the bombing without presenting evidence.

The Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday that Russian reconnaissance means have registered a US attack drone in the area where a school in Syria’s Idlib had been bombed, according to Sputnik.

No Russian aircraft entered the area over the Syrian Idlib, where the alleged strike took place, the ministry’s spokesman Igor Konashenkov added.

He pointed out that Russian UAVs have not registered any signs of the destruction of the school’s roof or shell craters.

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