The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, demanded that Ukraine receive lists of persons who, according to him, died as a result of war crimes, which he suspects were attributed to the Russian military in the village of Bucha on the outskirts of Kyiv.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Serhiy Lavrov, said that he would demand an explanation of the mass murder in Buch at the UN meeting. The Russians reject the accusations brought against them regarding the mass murder of the civilian Ukrainian population, which they committed in a city near Kyiv in the spring of 2022.
Russia has been presiding over the UN Security Council since July 1. In the coming days, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, will go to New York for a meeting of this body. The diplomat said that he wants to raise the issue of the lists of those killed during the Russian aggression in Buch.
"I will go to New York next week, we will consider the task of multilateral cooperation, ensuring equal, indivisible nature of security. Of course, we will talk about how the West tries to manipulate everything and everyone. For me, it is enough to hear what they will say in response to the question whether it is possible to review the list of those people whose bodies were shown in Buch by BBC correspondents," Lavrov said.
Bucha is a city in the Kyiv region, which in 2020 had a population of 36,000 inhabitants. The Russians occupied the city at the beginning of the invasion, but when the Ukrainians managed to recapture the city in March, it became known about large-scale war crimes that befell the local civilian population. The streets were full of corpses. Among the victims were innocent civilians, including women with children. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated that law enforcement agencies "find the bodies of people with their hands tied and their heads cut off."
