The UN confirmed the use of chlorine asad in the battle for Aleppo

The UN International Investigation Commission confirmed the use of chemical weapons - bombs with chlorine - in the battle of Aleppo by the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. The report of the commission is published on the United Nations. The number of civilians who died or injured as a result of these attacks is calculated by hundreds, the authors of the document note.

Since September 2016, the report said, the use of prohibited weapons to him by Assad and Russia - along with chlorine, these cassette and incendiary shells have increased significantly. There was no evidence of the use of chemical weapons by Russia, the commission notes, but there is reason to suspect Moscow in the use of cassette incendiary bombs.

As for chemical weapons, several cases of its use are documented. On September 6, the chlorine bomb was dropped to the Es Succari quarter. Two people were killed, including a 13-year-old girl; Over 80 civilians suffered. From December 8 to 12, Chemical attacks were daily subjected to the Al-Kalas quarter; On the first of these days is also El Firdose, and from the 8th to the 10th-Bustan-El-Casr. 35 dead are reported, including women and children, and about 30 victims.

In mid -February, the report on Assad’s chemical attacks on the residential areas of Aleppo, controlled by the rebels, at the UN introduced Human Rights Watch . Human rights activists have significantly established eight cases of chlorine from November 17 to December 13, 2016. At least nine civilians were victims of attacks, including four children. About 200 more civilians suffered.

As noted in HRW, the picture "indicates that we are not dealing with the personal initiative of individual, which have gone out of the control of actors, but with part of the general military strategy of the city’s occupation."

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, acting The Permanent Representative of Russia at the UN Peter Ilyichev, together with the Chinese Permanent Representative of Liu Zei, vested the draft of the Security Council resolution on sanctions against Syria for three previously confirmed chemical attacks.