MOSCOW, April 4 — Russia’s chief investigator today ordered an official examination of what he called a Ukrainian "provocation” after Kyiv accused the Russian military of massacring civilians in the town of Bucha.

Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigative Committee, ordered that a probe be opened on the basis that Ukraine had spread "deliberately false information” about Russian armed forces in Bucha, the committee said in a statement. — Reuters