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Russia is increasingly inclined to the fact that the incident on April 4 in the Syrian city of Khan-Sheikhun with the use of chemical weapons was staged. This was stated by the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry for non -proliferation and control of weapons Mikhail Ulyanov at a briefing at the UN for the Syrian Chemical Dossier, TASS reports .

Moscow calls on a joint mechanism to investigate the UN (SMR) and organization to prohibit chemical weapons to study all versions of what happened, the Russian diplomat emphasized. “We believe that the SMR should work out all the versions, including aviation. At the same time, we expect that the version of the staging nature of this incident will be carefully studied, to which, to be honest, we are inclined more and more,” Ulyanov said.

The Russian diplomat also stated that the children shown in the photographs from Khan-Sheikhun were not injured from Zarin, but from psychotropic substances. “Take a look, the pupils allegedly affected from the dawn to the limit, while in the case of the use of Zarin, they had to narrow to the size of the point,” said Ulyanov. “Who poisoned the children with drugs to raise a degree of emotions around the chemical incident?”

The versions of the airline do not correspond to the shape and size of the funnel that remained at the site of the incident, says the representative of the Foreign Ministry. According to him, she is more like traces of a ground explosion. Commenting on one of the videos about the work of rescuers at the site of the incident, Ulyanov noticed that people who select samples from the funnel had no protective equipment.

“This is just a version that SCR specialists should work on, but it certainly deserves attention,” the Russian diplomat concluded. “Let's see if this will take care of the mechanism and whether they will reflect the results in their report.”

On May 1, Human Rights Watch Human Rights has issued a report on chemical attacks in Syria. The document provides evidence of the involvement of the Syrian government forces in the April attack on Khan Sheikhun. Invited HRW experts studied photos of the funnel at the scene of the explosion and found that the city bombs of the CAB-500 or Kab-250, developed for use with Zarin, were dumped into the city. In addition, human rights activists determined the signs of Himatima using Zarin, interviewing the witnesses of the event and studying the photos of the victims.

In addition, the report provides information about three more cases of the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime. Human rights activists managed to establish the names of 64 victims of Himatak, which took place on December 11 and 12, 2016 in the east of the city of Hama, located near Khan Sheikhun. Another attack was recorded on March 30 in the north of Hama. As a result of this attack, no one died, but there were victims, including among the civilians.

On September 6, the UN Independent International Commission on the investigation of human rights crimes in Syria published a report in which she came to the conclusion that the Syrian authorities are worth the use of Zarin in Khan-Sheikhun. According to the same data, the Assad regime at least seven times used chemical weapons from March to July this year.

The attack on Khan Sheikhun was committed on April 4 . Bombs with Zarin, as well as presumably chlorine, were thrown into the city. As a result of the raid, more than 80 people died, including children.

Damascus said that the aircraft of Bashar al -Assad did not use chemical weapons, but bombed the rebels for the production of chemical shells and a warehouse of ready -made weapons. At such an explanation of events in Khan-Sheikhun, they also insisted in Moscow. However, the international community is sure that Assada aircraft made a chemical attack.

On the night of April 7, the United States fired at the Ash-Shayrat base with winged missiles , destroying it almost completely. It was the most stringent US action in Syria for all six years of the war, continuing in the Middle Eastern country.

On April 12, Russia imposed a veto on the draft resolution of the UN Security Council condemning a raid on Khan-Sheikhun and the demand for Assad to promote an international investigation of this crime.