Russia has evidence terrorists used sarin in April attack on Khan Sheikhoun — diplomat

Moscow has evidence that terrorists used sarin in Syria’s Khan Sheikhoun in April, Director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Non-Proliferation and Weapons Control Department, Mikhail Ulyanov stated at a news conference on Tuesday. “We are keeping a close watch on the situation. There is a huge amount of evidence implicating the terrorists, who set off a sarin bomb ‘on the ground’ for provocative purposes, knowing the blame would be pinned on Damascus”, he specified. Experts refuse to visit the scene of the alleged April 4 chemical attack in Syria’s Khan Sheikhoun although the security situation allowed this, he went on. The diplomat said “this arouses indignation” that neither investigators from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Fact-Finding Mission nor experts from the OPCW-UN Joint Investigative Mechanism have visited Khan Sheikhoun and the Shayrat airbase. Experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) claimed that chemical agents were used, among other things, in the city of Khan Sheikhoun on April 4. According to OPCW experts, sarin or another similar nerve agent was sprayed in the city on that day.