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DISINFO: White Helmets smuggle chlorine into Syria and they stage provocations
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: Vesti FM - YouTube (archived)*
  • Date of publication: October 11, 2018
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 122
  • Countries / regions discussed: UK, Syria, US
Tags:
false flag White Helmets Provocation Chemical weapons/attack Syrian War

DISINFO: White Helmets smuggle chlorine into Syria and they stage provocations

SUMMARY

White Helmets are smuggling chlorine into Syria. This group is hired by the British and the Americans to set up provocations.

RESPONSE

Another round of disinformation about the White Helmets preparing a staged chemical attack in Syria started spreading on August 25 by the Russian Ministry of Defence; see latest cases on White Helmets: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=white+helmets&disinfo_issue=&date=

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