This was during a briefing said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

“The main conclusion of this document, and it was obviously made up by order and, perhaps, due to political pressure from Western countries, comes down to the following thesis:“ there are reasonable reasons to believe ”- this is a quote -“ that in all three cases there was an application chemical weapons by Syrian government aviation, and the relevant orders came directly from the Syrian Air Force command. ” This “there is reasonable reason to believe” in a document of an international organization that has been working for several years that it’s just wild to see, ”she said.

She noted that in such matters "there can be no half-heartedness."

“What did you do there at the OPCW if you say that after a couple of years you have“ reasonable reason to believe ”? There can be no half-heartedness in these issues if you issue a report, and if you state something, you must provide facts, ”the representative of the Russian ministry said.

On April 8, the OPCW released a report on the investigation of chemical attacks in Syria in 2017. As RIA Novosti reported, according to investigators, air strikes in the province of Hama using chlorine and sarin were carried out by the Syrian Air Force.

At a meeting of the UN Security Council in January, Russia provided evidence of falsification of the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Duma in 2018.