RUSSIA claimed yesterday that the US had tacitly admitted it was wrong to blame Syria for an alleged chemical weapons attack in April.

A US State Department travel warning to citizens planning to visit Syria issued on Wednesday cautioned that the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, now known as Hetesh, uses chemical weapons.

Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov pointed out yesterday that Hetesh, operates in Idlib, where “only one case of the use of chemical weapons is known — in Khan Sheikhoun.”