US aiding false flag chemical attacks in Syria: Russian Defense Ministry

US Special Forces are aiding Syrian militants to engage in “chemical attack provocation” via chlorine gas to provoke Western airstrikes on Syrian forces, says the Russian Defense Ministry.

According to Press TV, a statement released by the Ministry on Monday said “Our intelligence confirmed by three independent Syrian sources says that commanders of the so-called ‘Free Syrian Army’, backed by the American Special Forces operators, are preparing a serious provocation involving chemical warfare agents in Dayr al-Zawr Province.”

It added that the FSA militants would probably use chlorine to launch a chemical attack.

“To imitate yet another ‘chemical attack by the government against peaceful civilians’, the rebels brought canisters filled with chlorine,” it added.

It noted that reports of such a move would be distributed in Western media and used as a pretext for further coalition airstrikes against Syrian forces.

In March, a high-ranking Russian military commander has warned that the United States is training foreign-sponsored Takfiri terrorists in the hope that they would launch false flag chemical attacks in southern Syria to provide a pretext for Washington to carry out airstrikes on Syrian government troops and infrastructure.

"We have reliable information at our disposal that US instructors have trained a number of terrorist groups in the vicinity of the town of At-Tanf to stage provocations involving chemical warfare agents in southern Syria,” Russian General Staff Spokesman General Sergey Rudskoy said at a news briefing in Moscow.

The Syrian government surrendered its stockpiles of chemical weapons in 2014 to a joint mission led by the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which oversaw the destruction of the weaponry.

Western governments and their allies, however, have never stopped pointing the finger at Damascus whenever an apparent chemical attack has taken place.

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