Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia Dmitry Polyansky called the publication of footage from Bucha “a blatant provocation.” The Ministry of Defense previously rejected the involvement of the Russian military in the killings of civilians in the city
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Russia demanded that a meeting of the UN Security Council be convened on April 4 because of the “blatant provocation of Ukrainian radicals in Bucha,” declared Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia Dmitry Polyansky.
At the meeting, the Russian side intends to “bring presumptuous Ukrainian provocateurs and their Western patrons to clean water,” Polyansky said.
On the night of April 3, publications appeared on the Web with photographs and videos from Bucha, which depicted corpses – Reuters wrote that they were dead civilians. The footage was also distributed by the Ukrainian authorities. Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk told AFP that after the city returned to Ukrainian military control, “280 more people were buried in mass graves.”
The Russian Defense Ministry called the production of photos and videos from Bucha near Kiev
The Ministry of Defense called these publications a provocation. The Russian military is not involved in the killings of civilians, the department said, and all units of the country’s Armed Forces left the city on March 30. During the time that Bucha was under the control of Russian troops, “not a single local resident was injured,” the Ministry of Defense stressed.