DISINFO: White Helmets prepared fakes about the use of chemical weapons in Syria

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the White Helmets implicitly, denying the responsibility of the Assad regime for chemical attacks perpetrated during the Syrian civil war. No evidence given to support the allegation.

White Helmets activists have documented the use of chemical weapons in Syria, later confirmed by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Thus, the OPCW found reasonable grounds to believe that chlorine was used as a weapon in the Douma district of Eastern Ghouta, Syria in April 2018. Because of these awareness-raising activities, the White Helmets have become the target of a prolific and aggressive Russian disinformation campaign seeking to delegitimise their humanitarian efforts and paint them as proxies of Western intelligence to undermine the Assad regime.

As early as February 2020, the Russia Centre for Syria Reconciliation had already announced, without providing evidence in this regard, that it had evidence of the preparation of a chemical false flag attack in Idlib by the White Helmets. The White Helmets have been repeatedly accused by the Syrian regime as being responsible for chemical attacks during the war in Syria. To date, there is no evidence linking the White Helmets to these attacks.

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Read more disinformation cases on chemical attacks in Syria here and here, and other cases claiming that the White Helmets used chemical weapons in Syria in order to accuse the Assad government; that The White Helmets are organising a false flag provocation in Idlib, Syria and that the White Helmets have falsified chemical attacks evidence.