Syrian government has no chemical weapons, ‘absolutely no need to use it’ – Russian MoD

‘The Syrian Army has no chemical weapons and has “no need” to use any such arms, as it has already been conducting a successful offensive on militant positions, a Russian General Staff official has said.
Militants “are suffering one defeat after another and are leaving the territories they once controlled. Under such circumstances, the government of Bashar Assad has no need to use chemical weapons. Moreover, the Syrian Army does not have any [chemical agents],” Colonel General Sergey Rudskoy, the chief of the Russian General Staff’s operations department, told journalists during a news briefing.
The top military official went on to say that Russia demands a “thorough investigation” of the April 4 incident in the town of Khan Sheikhoun located in Syria’s Idlib province. He underlined that US and western claims accusing the Syrian government of being behind the alleged chemical assault are “highly questionable.”’
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