MOSCOW claimed yesterday to have “incontrovertible evidence” that Britain falsified claims of a chemical attack in Syria to justify military action. 

Russia’s envoy to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alexander Shulgin made the sensational claims that Britain and the US had paid NGOs, including pseudo-humanitarian organisation the White Helmets to make the claims.

"Therefore, we have not just a ‘high degree of confidence’ as our Western partners claim, but we have incontrovertible evidence that there was no incident on April 7 in Douma and that all this was a planned provocation by the British intelligence services, probably, with the participation of their senior allies from Washington with the aim of misleading the international community and justifying aggression against Syria," Mr Shulgin said.