The evidence behind well-publicized claims that the Syrian government used poison gas against its own people appears to defy the laws of physics and chemistry, one of Russia’s top envoys has insisted at the UN Security Council.
In a meeting of the international body on Monday, Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy, reeled off a list of alleged mistakes made by his foreign counterparts in assessing the proof behind the use of chemical weaponry in the troubled Middle Eastern nation. The topic has been a hot-button issue since a series of war crimes accusations leveled at the government of Bashar Assad, which Russia is supporting militarily in its fight against a number of terrorist organizations and separatist militant groups.
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