MOSCOW, April 6. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov is confident that staged events in Bucha need to be investigated but such an investigation should be objective and independent.
"Undoubtedly, the monstrous staging in Bucha has to be and should be investigated," the Kremlin official told journalists on Wednesday. "Yet at the same time, it is necessary to define what will be a really unbiased, independent investigation. You and I remember different kinds of investigations, where Russia was not represented lately, and which we cannot perceive as independent under any circumstances. It is very important to avoid such a situation," he noted.
On April 3, the Russian Defense Ministry refuted the Kiev regime’s accusations of an alleged massacre of civilians in Bucha. The military agency said 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 confirmed in a video address that there were no Russian troops in Bucha. However, he did not say a word about the civilians shot dead in the street with their hands tied behind their backs. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov castigated the episode in Bucha as a "fake attack."
On Monday, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya held an emergency press conference after the UK, who in April chairs the UN Security Council, rejected Russian requests to call a meeting over the events in Bucha twice over 24 hours. At the press conference, Russian diplomats presented a video footage from Bucha filmed immediately after Russian troops left the town with no dead bodies on its streets.