MOSCOW, June 9. /TASS/. Russia has issued a note of protest to Yerevan following the visit to Bucha by Armenian Ambassador to Ukraine Vladimir Karapetyan, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told TASS.

"We consider the visit to Bucha by head of Yerevan’s Nor-Nork administrative district Tigran Ter-Margaryan and Armenian Ambassador Vladimir Karapetyan as official Yerevan’s openly unfriendly step. Following inadmissible statements against Russia and made there and assistance for the needs of the Ukrainian army, we have sent a note of protest to the Armenian foreign ministry," she said.

"We did not expect anything different from such a figure as Tigran Ter-Margaryan, a supporter of Aram Sarksyan’s Republic party. It is deplorable that the Armenian authorities are lining up with this," she added.

Ter-Margaryan and Armenia Ambassador to Ukraine Vladimir Karapetyan visited Bucha n June 2. Earlier, Zakharova called on Armenian lawmakers to share the list of people allegedly killed in Bucha that was handed over to them by Kiev.

Bucha false flag

In April 2022, Russian Investigative Committee Chairman Alexander Bastrykin said a criminal case had been opened after the Ukrainian provocation in the town of Bucha, Kiev region, under Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public dissemination of deliberately false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation). He noted that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, in order to discredit the Russian army, supplied the Western media with what was allegedly footage from Bucha as proof of the mass killing of civilians in a deliberate and pre-planned false flag.

However, it is known, including from the statements from the head of the Bucha administration of March 31, 2022, that the Russian army left the settlement as early as March 30. The video that appeared immediately after the withdrawal of Russian troops, filmed by Ukrainians and circulated on social media, said nothing about the killings and death of civilians.