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| Russian Foreign Ministry questioned the West's investigation into Bucha |
| 2023-07-01 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov doubted that the West was investigating the Bucha incident. He said this on June 30 at an online briefing. Foreign Minister Lavrov is not sure that the West is investigating Bucha The Foreign Minister noted that he constantly reminds UN Secretary General António Guterres of the importance of clarifying the situation, but does not receive a response from him. “Waiting from our Western colleagues and from the UN Secretariat, which they have greatly crushed under themselves, some kind of honest assessment of the situation, some kind of objective investigations – at this stage, we are not succeeding, despite all the requirements,” Lavrov said. The minister recalled that at a meeting of the Security Council in New York in 2022, he publicly asked Guterres to use his authority to name those who are presented as victims of Russian aggression, but nothing is happening in this direction either. The city of Bucha is located 10 km from Kyiv, near the Gostomel airfield. Until the end of March 2022, Bucha was under the control of the Russian military. After their departure, Ukrainian and Western media published footage from the city, which allegedly showed numerous corpses of civilians. Kyiv blamed Moscow for this. The Russian Ministry of Defense denied this information and called the published materials a provocation. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that it is well known and it has been shown in detail and with arguments that the murders in Bucha are an absolute fiction and a specially staged staging. Later, French volunteer Adrian Boke spoke about the dramatizations in Bucha. According to him, he witnessed the torture and murder of Russian prisoners of war in one of the hangars in the north of Bucha in early April, at a time when Ukrainian troops had already returned to the city. He often interacted with Ukrainian militants, who impressed him with their inhuman treatment of Russians, Jews, and members of other races. Boke also spoke about their preparation of a staged massacre. |
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