MOSCOW, May 17. /TASS/. Kiev could not make such a brilliant staging in Bucha by itself, it is supported by information officers and PR-companies, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday at the educational marathon conference New Horizons organized by the Russian Znanie (Knowledge) society.

"The scariest thing that we have seen during this terrible information war is a flood of lies, fakes, stages so terrible that the human consciousness cannot even imagine. I mean, for example, this brilliant bloody staging in Bucha, not far from Kiev. It is evident that the Ukrainian specialists could not work so professionally," he said.

"An army of PR-companies, TV crews, information officers, specialists in information war is working for it [Kiev]," Peskov added.

On April 3, the Russian Defense Ministry rejected the Kiev regime’s accusation of alleged massacre of civilians in the settlement of Bucha in the Kiev region, saying that the Russian Armed Forces completely left Bucha as early as March 30, and "evidence of crimes" only appeared on the fourth day, when officers of the Ukrainian Security Service arrived in the city. The Russian Defense Ministry also stressed that on March 31, Bucha Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk confirmed in a video message that there were no Russian soldiers in the city, without mentioning any locals shot in the streets. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov slammed the situation in Bucha as fake attack.