In the newscasts on Channel One and Russia 1 as evidence that the chemical attack in the Syrian Duma was staged, they used footage from a feature film of 2016, shot by Syrian filmmaker Humam Khusari and dedicated to the chemical attack of 2013. About this wrote "Rain".

So, in the news release on Channel One on April 22, the presenter said that "Western politicians and the press ignore the obvious evidence that there was no chemical attack in the Syrian city of the Duma". "The day before there were eyewitness accounts, they also say that the video footage shot by militants in the hospital was a dramatization," she commented on the photos from the filming of the movie Khusari.

The same shots were shown in the program "News of the Week" with Dmitry Kiselyov on April 22. "We still filmed, as the children in the quarter were scattered: who in cars, who near the machines, who are under the machines. All of them were supposedly dead. Their faces were yellow, "says Fares Muhammad Mayasa, a participant in the film crew, in the report" Vesti ".

The shots shown in the programs published the publication of the Global Times in 2016. They are captured shooting a feature film on the chemical attack in 2013 in the Syrian Guta. They were held in September 2016.

Recall that the use of chemical weapons in the Duma on April 7 was first reported by Syrian human rights activists. According to their information, as a result, several dozen people were killed. Syrian authorities deny their involvement in the use of chemical weapons. The Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia named video recordings with the consequences of the attack by staging. President of the United States Donald Trump accused in the attack of Syrian President Bashar Assad, calling him "an animal". On April 14, the US and its allies struck at objects allegedly linked to chemical weapons in Syria.