Russia is dismissing the UN report on the 21 August chemical weapon attack near Damascus, Syria as “biased and one-sided,” and says the inspectors ignored evidence that shows the rebels were responsible.

The UN report was released on Monday, and it did not blame the regime of Bashar al-Assad.  But it contained details of the kind of munitions and rockets used to deliver the deadly gas onto the civilian neighborhood in Ghouta in the earlier morning hours, and the likely point of origin of those rockets.  Those and other technical details led the US, UK, and France to immediately blame Syrian government forces.  The UN trusts its inspectors.

“The findings in that report are indisputable,” UN spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

The independent group Human Rights Watch analyzed the UN report, and says its own analysis shows two of the missiles fired on 21 August originated from a Republican Guard compound.

But the Russians say the Assad regime had provided evidence implicating the rebels, and that would be presented to the United Nations.

“We are disappointed, to put it mildly, about the approach taken by the UN secretariat and the UN inspectors, who prepared the report selectively and incompletely,” said Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov.

Meanwhile, Assad spoke to Murdoch’s American outlet Fox News, saying he is committed to a plan to destroy his country’s chemical weapons supply.