“Of course, we would like to see more momentum from Ukraine,” said the senior official, who in statements also conceded “that we still have a long way to go.”
Peskov referred to the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who pointed out that whenever there is reason to expect “some progress, even modest” in the negotiations, circumstances block the process.
In another part of the meeting with journalists, the head of the Kremlin’s press office called for an objective, impartial and independent investigation into what he called “Bucha’s monstrous system.”
“You and I recall several types of investigations recently in which Russia was not represented and which we cannot perceive as independent anyway. It is very important to avoid this situation,” he stressed.
Last Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry denied allegations that its soldiers killed civilians in the city of Bucha near Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
He explained that the armed forces of this country completely left this city on March 30 and that the evidence of the alleged crimes surfaced four days later when the employees of the Security Service of Ukraine arrived in the city.
On March 31, the mayor of that city, Anatoly Fedoruk, confirmed in a video message that there were no Russian soldiers in the city and did not mention the existence of dead bodies of local residents on the streets.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov described the incident as a “false attack” by Ukraine and the West in an attempt to demonize their country’s army. mgt/mml