LONDON, April 14. /TASS/. Developments in the Ukrainian city of Bucha have reduced the possibility for talks between Kiev and Moscow, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in an interview with BBC.
"Bucha is in the process of closing [the possibilities of peace talks]," he noted. "It's not about me - it's about Russia. They will not have many more chances to speak with us," Zelensky added.
According to him, the situation is the most difficult in the country’s east for Ukraine's armed forces, "but this is where our most powerful units are concentrated".
Zelensky also called on Western countries to boost military support for Ukraine and promptly provide the necessary weapons to Kiev.
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.