MOSCOW, April 4. /TASS/. Moscow considers the situation in Ukraine’s Bucha as a provocation that threatens international peace and security and will demand the United Kingdom, which is current president of the United Nations Security Council, call a meeting on this matter, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Monday.
"We have requested an emergency meeting of the [UN] Security Council on this concrete matter, because we think that such provocations pose direct threat to international peace and security. The current Security Council president - the United Kingdom - failed to confirm yesterday that such a meeting could be organized, but we will demand it fulfill its duties," he said at a meeting with visiting UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths.
The Russian defense ministry on April 3 dismissed the Kiev regime’s charges its forces had allegedly killed civilians in the community of Bucha in the Kiev region. The ministry recalled that Russian forces left Bucha on March 30 while faked evidence of alleged killings was presented four days later, when Ukrainian security service SBU agents arrived in the locality. The Russian defense ministry also said that on March 31 Bucha’s Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk said in a video address that there were no Russian soldiers in the community. Nor did he mention any locals allegedly shot dead on the streets.