The Russian Defense Ministry has warned that Islamist groups in Aleppo are preparing a chemical attack against civilians.
“We have come to know that terrorist groups are preparing provocative strikes with chemical shells against the positions of the Syrian army and residential areas in the eastern part of Aleppo in order to accuse the government troops there," Lieutenant-General Viktor Poznikhir of the Russian army's general staff said on Wednesday.
The Lieutenant-General also explained that Russia has received new intel that the Islamist groups were responsible for the attack on an aid convoy in Aleppo on September 19.
"We received additional information about the involvement of opposition groups closely connected with al-Nusra Front in the attack against the UN humanitarian convoy near Urum al-Kubra,” said Poznikhir.