MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. The goal of the crime that the Kiev regime committed in the city of Bucha is to disrupt peace talks, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram.

"The goal of another crime committed by the Kiev regime is to disrupt peace talks and escalate violence," she pointed out.

Zakharova noted that Russia had requested a United Nations Security Council meeting over the incident, which she slammed as "a provocation staged by the Ukrainian military and radical nationalists."

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the Russian Armed Forces had left Bucha, located in the Kiev region, on March 30, while "the evidence of crimes" emerged only four days later, after Ukrainian Security Service officers had arrived in the town. The ministry stressed that on March 31, the town’s Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk had confirmed in a video address that there were no Russian troops in Bucha. However, he did not say a word about civilians shot dead on the street with their hands tied behind their backs.