On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Ukraine and its allies of spreading propaganda about what happened in Bucha.
Sergey Lavrov: “In recent days the propaganda machine of the West and Ukraine has been working purely to fuel the hysteria over the video that was filmed, as we understand, by the Ukrainian military, by the Security Service, in the town of Bucha in Kyiv region. … We are inclined to think that the reason is the intention to derail negotiations with Ukraine — moreover, to do it at the moment when it began to gleam, even if it was not too bright yet.”
The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed the killings in Bucha occurred after Russian troops withdrew from the region on March 30, but multiple news outlets report satellite imagery shows bodies lying in the streets of Bucha before the Russian troops left. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials say another massacre occurred in the town of Borodyanka outside of the capital Kyiv. Local officials fear as many as 200 people have died.