Russia on Sunday (Apr 3) denied Ukrainian allegations that it had killed civilians within the city of Bucha, lately retaken by Ukrainian forces from Moscow’s troops.
Russia’s defence ministry mentioned in an announcement that footage and pictures exhibiting lifeless our bodies have been “yet one more provocation”.
“Throughout the time this settlement was underneath the management of Russian armed forces, not a single native resident suffered from any violent actions,” the ministry mentioned.
Picture and video of corpses strewn throughout the streets of Bucha have been “one other manufacturing of the Kyiv regime for the Western media,” it added.
Bucha mayor Anatoliy Fedoruk had earlier mentioned that 300 residents had been killed by the Russian military.
A minimum of 57 folks have been discovered buried in a mass grave, an area official mentioned Sunday as he confirmed AFP the slit trench the place the our bodies lay. A few of the our bodies have been both unburied or partially buried within the earth.
A few of the our bodies have been hid in black zip-up physique baggage whereas others have been in civilian clothes.
“It appears to be like precisely like warfare crimes,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s spokesman informed BBC tv.
“We discovered mass graves. We discovered folks with their fingers and with their legs tied up … and with pictures, bullet holes, behind their head.
“They have been clearly civilians they usually have been executed.”
In its assertion on Sunday, Russia mentioned that its navy models had withdrawn from Bucha on Mar 30.
“On Mar 31, the mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, confirmed in his video message that there was no Russian navy within the metropolis, however he didn’t even point out any native residents shot within the streets with their fingers tied,” mentioned the Russian defence ministry.
“The so-called ‘proof of crimes’ in Bucha appeared solely on the fourth day, when SBU [Security Service of Ukraine] officers and representatives of Ukrainian tv arrived within the metropolis,” it added.
