Russian Defense: Pictures and videos of Bucha are a new play that the Kiev regime fabricated

On April 3rd, the Russian Defense Ministry denied accusations that its forces killed civilians in the city of Bucha, Kiev Province, during the military operation Moscow is conducting in Ukraine to protect the residents of Donbass. 

“All the photos and videos published by the Kiev regime, which allegedly indicate (crimes) by the Russian military in the city of Bucha, are nothing but a new provocation,” the ministry said in a statement. 

The ministry added that none of the local residents was harmed by any violence during the period of control by the Russian armed forces are on this city.” 

The ministry stated that the residents of Bucha during the period of the Russian army’s control of their city enjoyed complete freedom of movement and use of cell phones, stressing that the Russian forces did not close the entrances to the city and its residents could leave it to the north, especially to neighboring Belarus. 

The ministry confirmed that the southern suburbs of the city were subjected to continuous bombardment, day and night, by the Ukrainian army, using heavy artillery, tanks and rocket launchers. 

The ministry pointed out that the Russian forces completed their withdrawal from Bucha on March 30th, a day after the meeting held in Istanbul, Turkey between the Moscow and Kiev negotiating delegations. 

The ministry noted that all the evidence appeared only four days later, when the employees of the Security Service of Ukraine and Ukrainian television arrived in the city. 

The ministry said: “All the bodies whose photos were published by the Kiev regime did not stiffen within four days and did not experience cyanosis. The images and videos of Bucha are a new play that the Kiev regime has fabricated for Western media.”

O. al-Mohammad