Experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reached Douma today and immediately began to work. The Russian military police are providing security. Today, our NBC Protection experts examined the militants' storehouse in the liberated city district and found components and equipment for the production of toxic agents.
Our reporter Aleksandr Bilibov examined the illegal laboratory.
Russian officers of the Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection troops descend down the narrow stairs to the basement of a block of flats in Douma's center. Although this basement in Douma's center may seem ordinary a closer inspection uncovers, that it is far more complex. It was militants' chemical lab. They produced toxic agents by using this equipment and had all the necessary ingredients. Take a look: these canisters contained reagents. The terrorists exactly knew the substances and their precise proportions for chemical mixtures. They used such handbooks; as you see, they are filled with formulas — sulfuric acid and so on. By following these instructions and using this equipment, the militants produced chemical agents which they later used in their provocations.
There is a persistent smell of ammonia inside of an adjacent huge warehouse. A whole chemical lab with ingredients for producing poisonous substances at an industrial scale.
Alexander Rodionov, NBC Protection troops: "We found chemical agents included in the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Among them we found such substances as thiodiglycol and diethanolamine which are required for obtaining sulfur and nitrogen mustards. Besides, the specialists found a canister with chlorine at the warehouse".
Take a look at the cylinder to the right: we recorded it today in the militants' lab. To the left there's the identical one, which was demonstrated in the video of the alleged chemical attack in Douma on April 7th. The militants injected chlorine into such cylinders, took them to the city and then staged the fake Syrian army attack. Everything had been kept completely confidential until the provocation was completely set up. Although the militants' lab was in the basement of a usual residential block of flats few people knew about what was here.
Amer Wazir: "I used to live in this house, but one day, the militants kicked us out of here; machine gunners kept the street, which at times was even blocked by pickups with machine guns. We did not know what they were doing here but we understood that it was something very important and confidential".
Near the house where the militants' lab was located there is a White Helmets' poster on the ground. For some reason, it appeared in this exact place. Here's the hospital of Douma, which became a video shooting studio for the White Helmets. Rojan works here as a paramedic here. His shift was on April 7th. Here is what he says about that day.
Rojan, an employee of the hospital: "We worked as usual, patients came in. The diagnoses were normal, nothing suspicious. But suddenly some people with cameras broke in, screaming that our patients had chemical poisoning. They started pouring water on everyone, filmed a video, and then left".
Today, the experts of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons are reported to have begun their work in Douma. It is unknown what objects they plan to visit and when the OPCW will prepare its report on an alleged attack in the Syrian city of Douma.
Aleksandr Bilibov, Sergei Truskov, Mikhail Emelin from Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Syria.
