Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register April 12 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that images and footage of corpses scattered in the Ukrainian city of Butsa were fake. Speaking at a news conference following talks with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, Putin compared Ukraine’s claims that Russian troops had executed civilians in Bucharest to what it called a Western chemical weapons attack. incrimination of Bashar al-Assad. . “It’s the same kind of fake in Bucha,” Putin said. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Ukraine has accused the Russian military of executing residents of Bukha, a town outside the capital Kyiv that Russian troops had occupied for several weeks before leaving. Western countries have called for those responsible for killing civilians to be punished. Russian authorities have accused Ukraine of directing the painful scenario to derail peace talks and push the West to impose more sanctions on Moscow. Russia sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine on February 24 in a special operation to downgrade its southern neighbor’s military capabilities and kill people it called dangerous nationalists. Ukrainian forces have put up fierce resistance and the West has imposed sweeping sanctions in a bid to force Russia to withdraw its forces. Sign up now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Report by Reuters. curated by Guy Faulconbridge Our role models: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
