‘USSR never exported sarin warheads’
The former Soviet Union never exported warheads with sarin to Syria or any other country, Head of Russian Presidential Administration Sergey Ivanov says.
“No one is disputing the fact that the USSR (the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) never supplied warheads with sarin either to Syria or any other country of the world,” Ivanov said on Wednesday.
The comments came after a UN report stated that the rocket at the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack on August 21 in the Syrian capital Damascus was emblazoned with Cyrillic characters.
“Now imagine: an old, ancient Soviet rocket and warhead, which came out of nowhere. This alone should raise big questions. And second, the committee found large tanks at the site: near which traces of sarin were found. Not a single army of the world ever uses such tanks. So they were almost surely made in someone’s backyard,” said Ivanov.
The 38-page UN report on last month™s chemical attack in Syria was published on September 16 and confirmed that chemical arms were indeed used at the site and that the warheads used œcould be original or improvised.”
The UN inspectors further noted that they had limited time to carry out the investigation and cautioned that evidence might have been œmoved” or even œmanipulated” since other unknown individuals visited the sites before and during their probe.
The UN inspectors had no mandate to determine who had perpetrated the chemical attack, although the US and some of its Western allies continue to insist that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was behind the incident.
Damascus and Moscow, however, have described the chemical attack as an act of provocation by foreign-backed opposition militants in Syria in a bid to prompt a US-led military action against the Arab country.”
Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since March 2011. According to reports, the Western powers and their regional allies — especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey — are supporting the militants operating inside Syria.
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