GENEVA, April 4. /TASS/. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called for an investigation of the situation in Ukraine’s Bucha.
"I am horrified by the images of civilians lying dead on the streets and in improvised graves in the town of Bucha in Ukraine," she said in a statement on Monday.
"It is vital that all efforts are made to ensure there are independent and effective investigations into what happened in Bucha to ensure truth, justice and accountability, as well as reparations and remedy for victims and their families," she emphasized, adding that reports coming from this city and from other areas "raise serious and disturbing questions about possible war crimes," and violations of international humanitarian law and human rights.
According to Bachelet, all bodies should be "exhumed and identified so that victims’ families can be informed, and the exact causes of death established." "All measures should be taken to preserve evidence," she insisted.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier on Monday that Bucha saw a staged fake, which was now being spread in Ukraine and in the West via all channels and social networks. Lavrov said that Moscow regarded the situation in Bucha as a provocation threatening international peace and security and would demand that Britain, the current president of the UN Security Council, call a special meeting on the issue.
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.