Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Bucha. File photoMOSCOW, April 12Moscow considers EU support for Kyiv's cynical provocation in Bucha to be blasphemy, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. , to the memory of the victims of constant Ukrainian shelling of cities and villages in Donbass,» the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on Tuesday. The ministry also noted that «none of the EU members have bothered to visit these territories even once since 2014.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbas. .jpg» />Lukashenko called the provocation in Bucha a British special operationThe Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation earlier stated that all photographs and video materials published by the Kiev regime, allegedly testifying to some kind of «crimes» by Russian military personnel in the city of Bucha, Kiev region, are «another provocation». As noted in the military department, during the time this settlement was under the control of the Russian Armed Forces, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions. The ministry noted that all Russian units completely left Bucha on March 30, and exits from the city in the northern direction were not blocked, while the southern outskirts, including residential areas, were shelled by Ukrainian troops around the clock from large-caliber artillery, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems. 
Russia handed over to the UN data on Kyiv's impending provocations in Ukraine
