Moscow-Sana
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the goal of the crime committed by Ukrainian extremists in Bucha was to disrupt the Russian-Ukrainian peace talks.
"The Russian Federation has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council on the provocations of the Ukrainian army and extremists in the city of Bucha," the ministry's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said on her Telegram channel, adding that "the aim of this crime of the Kyiv regime is to disrupt peace negotiations and escalate violence."
The Russian Defense Ministry denied Western accusations that its forces had killed civilians in Bucha, and confirmed that the pictures and videos circulated were a new play that the Kyiv regime had fabricated with Western media, and that no residents were harmed during the period of its forces' control of the city.
The ministry pointed out that the Russian forces withdrew from Bucha on March 30, and the next day, the city's mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, confirmed in a recorded statement that there were no Russian soldiers present, and without mentioning any cases of killing residents in the streets.
The ministry stressed that the photos of the corpses appeared only four days later, when employees of the Ukrainian Security Service and Ukrainian television arrived in the city.
