Russia’s military has claimed to have evidence that Britain had “direct involvement” in staging a suspected chemical attack in Syria, a charge quickly condemned as “grotesque” by the UK. Humanitarian volunteers were “seriously pressured” by the UK to speed up plans for a “provocation” in eastern Ghouta, the Moscow’s defence ministry suggested. Britain’s ambassador to the UN condemned the “blatant lie” as “the worst piece of fake news we’ve yet seen from the Russian propaganda machine”.
