kingdom russia also supports the assad government in syria which has used chemical weapons against its people in an 11yearlong civil warthe security council held its monthly meeting thursday on syrias chemical weapons with disarmament chief nakamitsu criticizing the syrian government for repeatedly refusing to answer questions about its chemical weapons program and urging the assad government to do solast june the head of the international chemical weapons watchdog fernando arias said its experts investigated 77 allegations against syria and concluded that in 17 cases chemical weapons were likely or definitely usednakamitsu ended her statement on thursday by saying the use of chemical weapons is a grave violation of international law and an affront to our shared humanitywe need to remain vigilant to ensure that those awful weapons are never used again and are eliminated not only in syria but everywhere she saidus deputy ambassador richard mills said that unfortunately syria has help on the council from its ally russia which he said has repeatedly spread disinformation regarding syrias repeated use of chemical weaponsthe recent web of lies that russia has cast in an attempt to justify the premeditated and unjustified war it has undertaken against ukraine should make clear once and for all that russia also cannot be trusted when it talks about chemical weapon use in syria mills saidbritains deputy ambassador james kariuki told the council that the parallels between russias action in ukraine besieging cities killing civilians indiscriminately forcing millions to flee in search of safety and its actions in syria are clearregrettably the comparison also extends to chemical weapons as we see the familiar specter of russian chemical weapons disinformation raising its head in ukraine he said