Russian foreign ministry on Wednesday accused rebels of staging the massacre to trigger intervention and it remains likely that Russia would veto any UN Security resolution concerning military intervention in Syria.










Vyacheslav Matuzov
Vyacheslav Matuzov

Pushkov: Chemical weapons use in Syria serves ‘opposition fighters’

The Russian author and political analyst Vyacheslav Matuzov considered the armed opposition’s resort to the use of chemical weapons to hit Damascus suburbs a clear evidence of military and political fiasco.

In a phone call with the Syrian TV Saturday, Matuzov said the US stance is unclear, indicating that Russia’s satellite images revealed that the rockets were launched from opposition-held areas in an obvious provocation that the international community has to shoulder responsibilities about.

Matuzov blamed the countries which are backing the armed opposition, mainly Turkey, for the use of chemical weapons.

Matuzov ruled out the possibility of a military intervention in Syria, adding that the opposition’s ‘cheap conduct’ makes it imperative for a political solution to materialize so as to put an end to such activities.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement few days ago that a homemade, chemically-laced rocket was fired on Damascus eastern suburbs from one of the gunmen’s sites.

  • Vyacheslav Matuzov is a chairman of Russia’s Society of Friendship and Business Cooperation with Arabic Countries

Pushkov: Chemical weapons use in Syria serves ‘opposition fighters’

Chairman of the Russian Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexei Pushkov said the use of chemical weapons in Syria serves the ‘opposition fighters’ as this will enable them to blame the Syrian government.

Pushkov said in a tweet on Saturday that ”the gunmen in Syria might have used chemical weapons deliberately to blame the Syrian authorities.”

”A chemical weapon discovered with the gunmen makes sense as it serves them to use it and blame the Syrian government,” Pushkov said.

The West declines to acknowledge that there is no logic to the accusations against the Syrian leadership, Pushkov pointed out.

”The West does not want to answer a significant question: Why would the Syrian leadership use chemical weapon? Is the Syrian leadership using it to give a pretext for foreign intervention or is it using it to dig its own grave?”, said Pushkov.

Russia Today, Syria News