MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. The situation in the Ukrainian town of Bucha is another example of Ukraine’s fake propaganda, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Telegram on Tuesday.

"An aircraft picture taken from a computer game. A drone downed by a jar of pickles. ‘Dead heroes’ who surrendered to a Russian warship. A Mariupol maternity home. And now Bucha," he said.

According to Medvedev, the one thing that unties them is that "it’s all fake news hatched by the cynical imagination of Ukrainian propaganda-makers." "Numerous PR agencies and ‘troll factories’ sponsored by Western governments and their tame non-profits and NGOs get a lot of money for cooking it all up," the Russian Security Council deputy chairman noted.

In his view, "enraged beasts from nationalist battalions and territorial defense forces are ready to casually kill their own civilians in a bid to dehumanize Russia and tarnish its image as much as possible."

Bucha incident

On April 3, the Russian Defense Ministry rejected the Kiev regime’s accusations of civilian killings in Bucha, Kiev Region. The ministry noted that the Russian Armed Forces had left Bucha on March 30, while "the evidence of crimes" emerged only four days later, after Ukrainian Security Service officers had entered 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. Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya held an emergency press conference on Monday after the United Kingdom, who is currently presiding in the UN Security Council, had twice in one day rejected Russia’s requests for a UNSC meeting on the Bucha developments. At the press conference, Russian diplomats presented videos made in Bucha right after the withdrawal of Russian troops. The videos show Ukrainian troops and the town’s mayor in high spirits, talking about their "victory" and failing to mention any killings.