Russia claims that the reported chemical attack in Syria last
Sunday was staged by the "white helmets,"
a US-funded NGO lauded by mainstream media for their humanitarian work,
while long-suspected of performing less-than humanitarian deeds behind the curtain.
Speaking
with EuroNews, Russia's ambassador to the EU, Vladimir
Chizov, said "Russian military specialists have visited this
region, walked on those streets, entered those houses, talked to local
doctors and visited the only functioning hospital in Douma, including
its basement where reportedly the mountains of corpses pile up. There
was not a single corpse and even not a single person who came in for
treatment after the attack."
"But
we've seen them on the video!" responds EuroNews correspondent
Andrei Beketov.
"There was
no chemical attack in Douma, pure and simple," responds
Chizov. "We've seen another staged event. There are personnel,
specifically trained - and you can guess by whom - amongst the so-called White
Helmets, who were already caught in the act with staged videos."
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