MOSCOW, May 4. /TASS/. A new package of EU sanctions against Russia involves adding to the sanctions list those individuals whom the European Union considers accountable for "war crimes in Bucha," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on her Twitter on Wednesday.

"First, we are listing high-ranking military officers and other individuals who committed war crimes in Bucha," she wrote.

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".