Moscow knew and deliberately carried out a campaign of atrocities in Bucha near Kiev. This was stated by US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on April 5 before leaving for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Radio Liberty reports..

“What we saw in Bucha is not a random act of a criminal unit. It's a deliberate campaign: kill, torture, rape, commit atrocities. The reports are more than credible, the evidence is open to the world,” Blinken said..

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On April 2, the Kiev region was liberated from Russian troops, including Irpin, Bucha, Gostomel. After the retreat of the Russian military in the liberated cities and villages, mass cases of civilian deaths were recorded..

Ukraine and some Western representatives demand that Russia be held accountable for war crimes because of what is happening in the Kiev region.

Kremlin 'categorically denies any allegations of civilian killings'. Russia even tried to convene a meeting of the UN Security Council, declaring a “flagrant provocation by Ukrainian radicals in Bucha”. However, the UN Security Council rejected this initiative..

On April 5, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that the Russian military, who committed atrocities in Bucha in the Kiev region, are returning to Ukraine again..