MOSCOW, May 17. /TASS/. The staging in Bucha should be exposed, its independent investigation is needed, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said during the educational marathon conference New Horizons organized by the Russian Znanie (Knowledge) society on Tuesday.

When asked to give an example of the most outrageous lie spread in the West at the highest level, the Kremlin official pointed to events in Bucha. "In recent months, this is, of course, Bucha - a masterfully directed staging, a lie, a performance that was picked up by media outlets and that was later even more highlighted and spread through the speeches of various state officials," he said, adding that "this process continues."

"This is why, of course, an impartial independent investigation is necessary which will bring to light this entire situation and this entire tragedy," he emphasized.

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".