MOSCOW, April 3. /TASS/. A senior Russian lawmaker has slammed Kiev’s false reports about alleged killing of civilians in the Ukrainian city of Bucha by Russian troops as a crime and the West as its accomplice.

"There are no doubts that it is a staging organized by Kiev authorities. And this fact is a crime, as is Kiev’s inflating this topic. And the fact that the West has picked it up and is hyping it makes it an accomplice of this cynical and immoral crime," Konstantin Kosachev, deputy speaker of Russia’s Federation Council (upper parliament house), told TASS on Sunday.

According to the Russian lawmaker, it is rather the West’s disservice to Kiev. "Their agony will only prolong but will not become less painful," he added.

The Russian defense ministry said earlier on Sunday that all Russian troops had left the city of Bucha in the Kiev region as far back as March 30 while "evidence od crimes" surfaced four days later, when Ukrainian Security Council officers arrived in the city. According to the Russian defense ministry, Bucha’s mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said in his video address on March 31 that there were no Russian troops in the city. He did not even mention about any people who were shot dead in the streets with their hands tied.