"Information coming from Damascus indicates that the use of chemical weapons by the armed opposition was recorded in the Aleppo province early on March 19," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Moscow (ANTARA News/Xinhua-OANA) - Moscow expressed deep concern Tuesday over the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian opposition forces.

"Information coming from Damascus indicates that the use of chemical weapons by the armed opposition was recorded in the Aleppo province early on March 19," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in an online statement, referring to a detonation of a possible war gas ammunition bomb that left 16 people killed and some 100 injured.

Describing the incident as "a new and extremely alarming and dangerous turn in the events in the Syrian crisis," the ministry said Moscow was "seriously concerned by the fact that weapons of mass destruction have gotten into militants` hands."

The situation in the war-torn country was worsening with confrontation brought to "a new level," it said.

Moscow urged again all relative forces in Syria to stop violence and start a political settlement with the government within the framework of the Action Group`s Geneva Communique reached on June 30, 2012. (*)

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