The Kremlin considers the events in Bucha “a well-staged tragic show,” said Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Russian president. He suggested abstracting from emotions, “think with your head” and “compare the facts” .jpg” alt=”The Kremlin called what happened in Bucha a forgery to “denigrate” the Russian army” />
Events in Ukrainian Bucha— forgery, its purpose— denigrate the Russian army. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, RBC correspondent reports.
He called the incident “a well-directed tragic show.” “This is a forgery in order to try to denigrate the Russian army,” — said the presidential press secretary, stressing that any accusations against the Russian military are groundless.
Answering the question of whether Russia was interested in participating in the investigation of the events in Bucha, Peskov said that “we need to think as far as possible now, a truly impartial investigation, neutral, unbiased, impartial.”
“We urge, first of all, the members of the Security Council, the leaders of Western countries, to abstract from emotional perception, which is not based on anything, and just think with your head and try to compare the facts. In order to understand what a monstrous forgery we are talking about,— Peskov told reporters.
Photos and videos from the cities of Bucha and Irpin in the Kiev region on April 3 were distributed by the Ukrainian authorities and journalists from Reuters, AFP and the BBC. They show mass graves, the bodies of people on the streets, some have their hands tied. The mayor of the city, Anatoly Fedoruk, told AFP that these people were shot and that 280 others were buried in mass graves, he said.
The Russian Defense Ministry called the released footage a provocation. The military department insists that during the time that Bucha was under the control of the Russian military, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions, while the Ukrainian military shelled the southern districts of the city around the clock from large-caliber artillery, tanks and rocket systems volley fire.
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Since that moment, Russia has twice demanded to convene a meeting of the UN Security Council. Britain, which chairs the Security Council, refused Moscow the initiative, because the consideration of the situation was already scheduled for Tuesday, April 5. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, British representatives want to “dissolve the fake in the city of Bucha in demagogic arguments about the nature of the Ukrainian crisis.”
A message on the UN website says that a meeting of the UN Security Council is scheduled for Tuesday, 5 April, at 10:00 (17:00 Moscow time).
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha on April 4. During the visit, he said that Kyiv would continue negotiations with Moscow. “Yes, because Ukraine must find peace. We are in Europe of the 21st century. We will continue our diplomatic and military efforts,— Zelensky said.
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