Alluding to the US President, Lavrov: Some have a "problem of conscience"!

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that statements by US President Joe Biden about Russian President Vladimir Putin show that some in the West have a "conscience problem."


Biden today accused the Russian president of war crimes and called for his trial, marking an escalation of international anger over the "alleged operations" of killing civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

According to "Sky News Arabia", Lavrov said that Russia will hold a press conference later in New York to address allegations about its role in the situation in Bucha.

Biden's comments came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bucha, a town around Kiev, where Ukrainian officials say the bodies of civilians have been found.


Zelensky described the Russian actions as "genocide" and called on the West to tighten sanctions against Russia.

Ukrainian Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova said that the bodies of 410 civilians were found, collected from towns in the Kyiv region, which were recently recaptured from Russian forces.


Associated Press journalists saw the bodies of at least 21 people in various locations around Bucha, northwest of the capital, Kyiv.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Twitter on Monday that the European Union plans to send investigators to Ukraine to help local prosecutors "document war crimes".

Lavrov denied Ukrainian accusations that Russian forces had committed atrocities against civilians, describing it as a "provocation".

Lavrov said that Moscow views the Ukrainian allegations of a massacre of civilians as "a provocation that constitutes a direct threat to world peace and security."

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