Another attempt to depict the incident as a fake aired on Russian state television channel Russia-24, using a video which the channel claimed to show Ukrainians arranging mannequins in order to "stage" the Bucha massacre. The footage was quickly identified as coming from a television set filmed in Saint Petersburg. Workers for the television show confirmed that the video was from a Russian television show. Similarly, a video showing Ukrainian soldiers pulling dead bodies with cables in Bucha was widely shared by pro-Russian social media, supposedly to prove that the scene was staged. The provenance of the video is Associated Press; its report explains that the use of cables was due to concern of the dead bodies being possibly booby-trapped.
