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Moscow has denied Ukrainian allegations that Russian forces killed civilians in the Ukrainian city of Butsa near Kyiv.
A statement from Russia’s Defense Ministry said the videos and photos of the bodies were “another provocation”.
According to the ministry, all Russian military units had left the city on March 30. The statement also said that Russian troops had delivered 452 tonnes of humanitarian aid to residents of communities in the greater Kiev area.
Moscow also claims, according to the unofficial translation of the statement published by Reuters, that throughout the occupation of the city the residents of Boutsa were free to move and use their mobile phones, exits were not blocked and all were able to flee north, to Belarus, while the southern suburbs “including residential areas” were bombed by Ukrainian forces.
“We want to emphasize that all Russian forces withdrew completely from Butsa on March 30, a day after the face-to-face talks between Russia and Ukraine in Turkey. His message was that there were no Russian soldiers in the city but he did not even mention that locals had been shot in the streets with their hands tied, so it is not surprising “(Security Service of Ukraine) and representatives of Ukrainian television arrived in the city.”
The statement also said that the dead in the pictures released by Ukraine do not have funeral stiffness, nor is there blood on their wounds. “All this unequivocally confirms that the photos and videos from Boutsa are another staged representation of the Kiev regime for the Western media, as I did in Mariupol with the maternity hospital and in other cities,” the statement concluded.
Source: Capital
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