'Cheap' And 'Tacky': Russian TV Uses 2016 Film Set Images In Report On 'Staged' Syria Gas Attack

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'Cheap' And 'Tacky': Russian TV Uses 2016 Film Set Images In Report On 'Staged' Syria Gas Attack
April 24, 2018
    Carl Schreck

Russian state television has shown footage from the 2016 set of a Syrian film in a report pushing Moscow's claim that a suspected gas attack in Syria was "staged."

The April 22 report by state-run Channel One aired two weeks after the suspected gas attack in the Syrian town of Douma that the United States, France, and Britain blame on the forces of Syria's Russia-backed leader, Bashar al-Assad.

Those Western allies conducted missile strikes on Syrian government targets in response to the April 7 incident, while Russia denies any chemical attack took place and says "what did take place was...staged."

Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/syria-douma-gas-attack-russian-tv-2016-husari-film-images-hoax/29190050.html