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RFE/RL: Russia slams US ahead of UN report on Syria chemical attacks

Published June 22, 2018 at 3:44 pm

EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / A Syrian medic holds the body of a child at a makeshift clinic following a suspected chemical attack on the rebel-held village of al-Shifuniyah in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus late on February 25, 2018.A child died and at least 13 other people suffered breathing difficulties after a suspected chemical attack on the besieged Syrian rebel enclave, a medic and a monitor said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 14 civilians had suffered breathing difficulties after a regime warplane struck the village. / AFP PHOTO / HAMZA AL-AJWEH

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Moscow has charged that the United States and its allies fabricated evidence to implicate Syrian government forces in chemical-weapons attacks against civilians.

Russian Defense Ministry official Igor Kirillov, commander of the radiation, chemical, and biological protection forces, said on June 22 that an alleged attack in the town of Khan Sheikhun on April 4 was “a provocation staged by the [Syrian aid group] White Helmets and their sponsors.”