LONDON, September 30. /TASS/. By promoting its unfounded version of events in Bucha, the UK is helping Ukraine hide the truth and exposing its involvement in the staged provocation, the Russian embassy in London said in a statement released in connection with a report in The Sunday Times newspaper.
"The Sunday Times has published a piece on Bucha, using Ukrainian fabricated narratives on alleged war crimes. In spring 2022, the Bucha falsification was used to disrupt talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul. For those readers who value logic and facts over emotions, we suggest reflecting on the following. During the stay of Russian servicemen in Bucha there were no complaints about them doing anything wrong. It was publicly confirmed by the Mayor of the town, Anatoly Fedoruk, the day after our military units had left," the statement said.
"Only two days after their withdrawal, western reporters ‘accidentally’ had the ‘luck’ to film bodies, neatly positioned along the main street of Bucha, and broadcast that footage to the world. It appeared that no one had noticed them for two days, and then, suddenly, everyone’s vision cleared. This is simply impossible," the embassy emphasized.
The Russian diplomats recalled that, according to the initial results of the forensic examination of the bodies found in Bucha, which were published on April 24, 2022, in The Guardian newspaper, most of the civilians died "as a result of artillery shelling from fragments of 122mm anti-personnel projectiles of Ukrainian D30 howitzers." "This conclusion confirms the fact that the victimsdied not from the firearms, allegedly at the hands of Russian servicemen, but rather from the strikes of the Ukrainian army that had been keeping under fire of its heavy artillery, tanks and multiple-launch rocket systems the southern outskirts of Bucha, including residential areas, round the clock," the statement said.
