Alwaght- Russian military experts have found fresh evidence of chemical warfare against Syrian civilians.
According to a report published on Friday by RT, Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that unexploded mortar shell uncovered in Aleppo contained mustard gas. Foreign-backed Takfiri terrorists have been using chemical weapons against the country’s civilians.
Ammunition containing the chemical agent was reportedly used in a devastating attack on a village in the Aleppo province conducted back in September. “An express-analysis of the contents [of ammunition] carried out using a portable infrared spectrometer revealed the presence of vesicant chemical warfare agent sulfur mustard. We’ve taken roughly a 20 milliliter sample from the shell. Afterwards it was sealed tight and delivered to the Russian Centre for reconciliation of opposing sides in the Syrian Arab Republic for further investigation,” a representative for Russian Troops of Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense (RChBD) has said.
The report added that the recovered chemical round is a crude homemade 240-mm mortar shell, with a capsule in the rear. The capsule contained from 0.5 to 1.5 liters of a black oily liquid, which proved to be a chemical warfare agent.
This is not the first time that Russian experts have produced evidence of chemical munitions usage by foreign-backed terrorists in Syria.
Russia's Defense Ministry says it contacted the leadership of the UN Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) “with the demand to urgently send its experts to Aleppo to participate in the sample analysis.” The watchdog appeared reluctant to join forces with the Russian military or send independent experts to Aleppo, citing security issues. Some OPCW members seemed to ignore the proposed evidence of chemical weapons. Over the recent past, foreign-backed terrorists reeling from a string of defeats by Iraqi and Syria forces are desperately fighting back by launching chemical weapons attacks.
These terrorists, backed by some Western countries and their regional allies, have clearly exhibited their ruthlessness by targeting innocent civilians using deadly chemical weapons.
Terrorists in Iraq and Syria are targeting civilians using chemical weapons amid a deafening silence by Western countries and the UN. Indeed, some of the Western countries especially the US, France and Britain are culpable in the use of chemical weapons by terrorists in these two countries.
