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Disinfo: Britain seeks another anti-Russian provocation

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The Douma attack and the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury are parts of the same plot. Evidence is destroyed. OPCW mission was manipulated by the British. And now US BZ nerve agent’s discovery in the Skripal samples.. Who is to say that nothing else was injected – like the agent used to allegedly poison the Skripals?  As evidence is destroyed and the Skripals are “abducted”, Britain seeks another anti-Russian provocation – with warnings of a Russian cyber-attack.

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No evidence given. Many competing and contradictory stories promulgated by Russian state-controlled media on the Skripal poisoning and Douma chemical attack https://euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=sergei+skripal&disinfo_issue=&date=, euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=douma&disinfo_issue=&date=,

On Sunday 4 March Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned in Salisbury with a military-grade nerve agent of a type developed by Russia.

For the UK response see: www.gov.uk/government/news/novichok-nerve-agent-use-in-salisbury-uk-government-response,

The laboratory has answered to Russian claims about BZ https://twitter.com/SpiezLab/status/985243574123057152

The OPCW have confirmed the UK findings in the case. "The results of the analysis by the OPCW designated laboratories of environmental and biomedical samples collected by the OPCW team confirm the findings of the United Kingdom relating to the identity of the toxic chemical that was used in Salisbury and severely injured three people." https://www.opcw.org/news/article/opcw-issues-report-on-technical-assistance-requested-by-the-united-kingdom/

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  • Reported in: Issue 105
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 22/04/2018
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: UK, Russia
  • Keywords: Sergei Skripal, Cyber, Provocation, Anti-Russian
  • Outlet: Vesti nedeli @Rossija 1, 19:30

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Western methods in Syria now like Nazi propaganda in 1939

This [Douma chemical attack] was a provocation, a typical pretext for war. World War II began that way, when SS troops in Poland in 1939 acted as if they took lessons from the British-sponsored White Helmets, which was then used by Nazi propaganda. The fake attack on a German radio station in the town of Gleiwitz in August 1939 became the pretext for the Nazi invasion of Poland at the start of World War II where millions of people got killed. What is the difference between that and the Western methods in Syria now?

April 23, 2018
Disproof

Repeating recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation on chemical attack in Douma, Syria and the White Helmets. euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=douma&disinfo_issue=&date=,

The Nazi German attack in Gleiwitz 1939 has nothing to do with the Douma chemical attack. www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/6106566/World-War-IIs-first-victim.html, https://www.britannica.com/event/German-Soviet-Nonaggression-Pact,

A subsequent US missile strike against Syria was based on a YouTube clip

A subsequent US, UK and France missile strike against Syria was based on a YouTube clip, even though the Russian soldiers and journalists, the first on site, established there was no chemical attack.

April 23, 2018
Disproof

Repeating recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation on chemical attack in Douma, Syria. euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=douma&disinfo_issue=&date=, , euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=white+helmets&disinfo_issue=&date=,

In the end of the story, Vesti Nedeli has interviewed a man who claims that he assisted in the filming of the fake chemical attack. The story is illustrated with pictures that in fact were published in Global Times in 2016, and are behind-the-scenes pictures from a film with which a Syrian-born film-maker "wanted to attract the world’s attention to the real-life stories of the victims of the 2013 sarin gas attack."  Further debunking by the Insider and TV Dozhd.

The West destabilises Armenia to weaken Russia in Syria

The West began destabilizing the situation in Armenia, the participant of the Eurasian Union, in order to weaken Russia’s positions in Syria.

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The protests in Armenia, which the opposition leaders themselves called a “velvet revolution”, should be considered in the context of the aggravation of Russia’s relations with the West and the Syrian crisis.

April 23, 2018
Disproof

Recurring disinformation in pro-Kremlin outlets that the West is the organiser behind any civil protests or colour revolutions. No evidence given.