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UN Security Council’s meeting on Ukraine due Tuesday

Earlier, Russia requested a discussion of the events in Bucha on Monday, April 4

UNITED NATIONS, April 4. /TASS/. Britain, the UN Security Council’s president in April, remains determined to hold a UN Security Council meeting to discuss Ukraine on Tuesday, April 5, the British ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward, said in a video message uploaded to Twitter.

"The UK will call a UN SC meeting tomorrow on Ukraine," she said, adding that Bucha would be on the agenda, too.

Earlier, Russia requested a discussion of the events in Bucha on Monday, April 4. The decision to call a UN SC meeting is made by the presiding country. The president is unable to block the session, but can use formal reasons to delay it or combine it with another meeting having a similar agenda. Earlier on Monday, Russia’s first deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, said that Russia would keep pressing for holding the meeting on Monday.

The Russian Defense Ministry on April 3 dismissed Kiev’s charges the Russian forces were allegedly responsible for killing civilians in Bucha, the Kiev region. The Defense Ministry stressed that on March 31 Bucha’s Mayor, Anatoly Fedoruk, said in a video address that there were no Russian forces in the community, but said nothing about any civilians allegedly shot on the streets. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed the Bucha incident as a "fake attack".