Zakharova: US, UK Supplies of Chemicals to Terrorists in Syria ‘Beyond Understanding’

MOSCOW- The fact that the United States and the United Kingdom have supplied toxic agents to terrorists in Syria is “beyond understanding,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Wednesday, according to Sputnik.

Earlier in the day, Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad accused Washington and London of supplying toxic agents to terrorists, adding that CS and CN substances, produced by US and UK companies, were found in Aleppo and Damascus.

“To supply terrorists with toxic agents, hiding behind pictures of killed children, is beyond understanding,” Zakharova said on Facebook.

 Syria Has Right to Address UN as Alleged Western Chemical Weapons Found – Russian MP

Meantime, Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the Russian lower house of parliament’s International Affairs Committee, also said Wednesday that Damascus has right to turn to the United Nations in wake of reports that Western chemical weapons had been found in Syria.

Syria now has all the reasons and the right to address the United Nations over western-produced chemical weapons found on the territories liberated from terrorists. The information released by the Syrian Foreign Ministry once more demonstrates in full the hypocrisy of the members of the western US-led coalition, and proves that the entire goal of the entire operation is to overthrow the Syrian government, Slutsky told reporters.

He added that in order to reach that goal, the western countries were ready to do everything from spreading fake news to actually supporting terrorists.

“Now it is even clearer that Idlib, where pro-governmental Syrian forces allegedly used chemical weapons, was the first step in one big chain of provocations to justify the Tomahawk missile strikes in violation of the international law and sovereignty of the Syrian Republic,” Slutsky added.

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