{"id":356635,"date":"2018-04-13T20:44:59","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-have-evidence-of-uks-role-in-staging-douma-provocation-russian-mod\/"},"modified":"2018-04-13T20:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T19:44:59","slug":"we-have-evidence-of-uks-role-in-staging-douma-provocation-russian-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/we-have-evidence-of-uks-role-in-staging-douma-provocation-russian-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have Evidence of UK&#8217;s Role in Staging Douma Provocation \u2013 Russian MoD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>An apparent false flag chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma on April 7 has served as a pretext for the United States to threaten the Middle Eastern country with a missile strike; Russia has been calling for a transparent investigation while local doctors have said no one has asked for medical treatment for poisoning.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defense Ministry holds a press briefing on what the Western narrative describes as an alleged chemical attack in Syria&#8217;s Eastern Ghouta. No evidence has been presented to support the claim. A Russian chemical corps commission that has been sent to Douma reported that no traces of chemical poisoning were found. On April 12, US Defense Secretary acknowledged the Pentagon had no evidence of chlorine or sarin use in Douma.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSputnikNews%2Fvideos%2F10156151292111181%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at\u00a0the briefing, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that the ministry has enough evidence that the planned provocation with\u00a0the use of\u00a0chemical weapons was carried out\u00a0in Syria&#8217;s Douma on\u00a0April 7.<\/p>\n<p>He added that\u00a0\u00a0 the United States and Western countries continue their &#8220;indiscriminate and unfounded accusations&#8221; against\u00a0the legitimate Syrian government over\u00a0the alleged use of\u00a0chemical weapons against\u00a0civilians in\u00a0Eastern Ghouta.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However almost a week on, the United States and some European countries have failed to\u00a0provide any evidence, according to\u00a0him.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The Russian Defense Ministry has plenty of evidence that on April 7, a planned provocation was carried out in Douma with the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/staging-douma-provocation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An apparent false flag chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma on April 7 has served as a pretext for the United States to threaten the Middle Eastern country with a missile strike; Russia has been calling for a transparent investigation while local doctors have said no one has asked for medical treatment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}