Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denounced on Tuesday that the events that took place in the city of Bucha are a provocation that seeks to hinder the negotiations that are being carried out with Ukraine in order to end the conflict.
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At the same time, the Russian foreign minister asserted that the Russian military had nothing to do with the killings of civilians in Bucha, “What is the cause of this obvious and lying provocation whose veracity cannot be confirmed? We are willing to think that the cause is the desire to find a pretext to frustrate the ongoing negotiations,” he said.
Lavrov explained that the Western media began to show the corpses in Bucha to infamously accuse the Russian troops, at the precise moment in which the progress of the negotiations between Moscow and kyiv became known.
“For the first time, the Ukrainian side put on paper its readiness to declare its neutral, non-aligned, non-nuclear state, and for the first time declared its readiness to refuse to deploy weapons of foreign states on its territory and to conduct exercises on its territory. with the participation of foreign military personnel, except with the consent of all the guarantor countries of this treaty, the future treaty, we hope, including Russia,” Lavrov said.
The foreign minister confirmed that when the events in Bucha were published, the Russian troops had already left the city, “three days following our military left the city of Bucha, the provocation we are talking regarding was organized there,” he added.
“The Russian side is ready to work honestly and systematically at the negotiating table. But if the Ukrainian delegation continues to state that additional steps are necessary from us, if it continues to refuse even to discuss the tasks of denazification and demilitarization, the restoration of the rights of the Russian language,” said the Russian Foreign Minister.
