Denying Allegations Of Massacre In Bucha, Russian Ministry Of Defense: Provocation Of Fake News For Western Media

Illustration of the Russian Ministry of Defense. (Wikimedia Commons/A.Savin)

JAKARTA - The Russian Defense Ministry categorically rejects the accusations by the Kyiv regime, related to the alleged massacre of civilians in the Bucha city settlement in the Kyiv region that were made last weekend.

Apart from that, the ministry also said that the photos and videos of Bucha are yet another fake made by the Kyiv Government regime for Western media.

"All photos and videos allegedly proving the 'crimes' committed by Russian troops in Bucha City, Kyiv region, which were released by the Kyiv regime, constitute another provocation," the ministry said.

"The photos and videos of Bucha are fakes made by the Kyiv regime for the Western media, just as it was done in Mariupol maternity homes and in other cities," the ministry stressed.

As previously reported, the mayor of Bucha accused Russian troops of being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians in the city during the roughly month-long occupation.

The mayor of Bucha, Anatoliy Fedoruk, showed the Reuters team two bodies with white cloths tied around their arms which he said were what residents were forced to wear by fighters from Chechnya, a region in southern Russia that has deployed troops to Ukraine in support of Russia.

One of the corpses was bound by a white cloth and appeared to have been shot in the mouth.

Bucha is located 37 km (23 miles) northwest of Kyiv city and this weekend when journalists visited, authorities began making accusations of atrocities, it was a sight of destroyed buildings and streets littered with corpses.

"Every war has some rules of engagement for civilians. Russia has shown that they knowingly kill civilians," Fedoruk said.

Fedoruk said on Saturday that more than 300 of the city's residents had died. Reuters, brought to the scene by Ukrainian authorities, was not immediately able to verify the mayor's allegations.