The Russian Foreign Ministry said that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres did not answer 12 questions from Sergey Lavrov about the events in Bocha. The Russian side claims that he sent inquiries regarding the methodology for counting the dead, the sources of the data and the reasons for discrepancies in the data. According to representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow never received an answer to these questions. The ministry also stated that it considers the UN Secretary General's position biased and called on the organization to return and discuss the circumstances of the incident.