Nebenzia called the refusal of the UN Security Council meeting on Bucha unprecedented

The refusal to hold a meeting of the UN Security Council on the events in the Ukrainian city of Bucha at the request of Moscow is unprecedented, Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, said at a press conference.

“It is unprecedented, unthinkable, unimaginable that we were denied the UN Security Council meeting that we requested from the UK today,” the permanent representative said.

RUSSIA twice, on April 3 and 4, demanded to convene a meeting of the UN Security Council on the events in Bucha.

On April 3, the media (including REUTERS and AFP), as well as the Ukrainian authorities, distributed photographs from the city with corpses on the streets. The mayor of the city, Anatoly Fedoruk, told AFP that the people in the photo were shot dead. According to him, another 280 people are buried in mass graves.

The Russian Defense Ministry called the published footage and video a provocation, and also stated that while the city was controlled by Russian troops, "not a single local resident was harmed." The department noted that “evidence of crimes in Bucha” began to be published only four days after the departure of the Russian military, when employees of the Security Service of Ukraine and Ukrainian journalists arrived in Bucha. The Ministry of Defense claims that Russian troops left Bucha on March 30.

“The Russian military did nothing of what they are accused of,” Nebenzya emphasized and indicated that Moscow had evidence of its position and they would be presented at a meeting of the UN Security Council.