AFU servicemanMOSCOW, 16 Mar. The Security Service of Ukraine, with the support of the West, is preparing a provocation with the use of toxic substances against civilians, said the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov. «The purpose of the provocation is to accuse Russia of using chemical weapons against the population of Ukraine,» he said. .
Zelensky asked the United States to provide Ukraine with air defense systems. The representative of the Ministry of Defense added that Russian units involved in a special military operation do not and cannot have chemical munitions, since Russia, unlike the United States, has long fulfilled its international obligations by completely destroying all stocks of such Konashenkov stressed that in order to suppress any provocations by Ukrainian nationalists, Russian military personnel in the liberated territory take control of dangerous objects and ensure their safety. with objects applied to it and types of stored poisonous substances. Therefore, any attempt to provoke the SBU with the use of poisonous substances will inevitably be revealed,» the representative of the ministry said. />Ukrainian troops attacked Volnovakha from the Smerch and Tochka-U MLRS. This is not the first provocation of this kind in Ukraine. Earlier, Russian units took control of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, the local paramilitary guards laid down their arms and went home. After that, the station was attacked by Ukrainian nationalists, but they managed to be driven back. Last week, the nationalists blew up one of the buildings of the Physico-Technical Institute in Kharkov, this scientific center houses an experimental nuclear facility. Before that, the Kiev authorities tried to organize a provocation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Ukrainian saboteurs attacked a unit of the National Guard that was patrolling the territory. From the windows of the training complex, located outside the power plant, heavy fire from small arms was opened on the Russians. In response, the firing points of the radicals were suppressed. As indicated in the defense department, the sabotage group set fire to the building when it was leaving it. After that, the Ukrainian authorities attacked facilities that provide electricity to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The power supply was restored from the territory of Belarus.
The Investigative Committee opened the first criminal cases for spreading fakes about the militaryRussia launched a military operation on February 24 to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine . The armed forces say they are only targeting military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. There are casualties on both sides. In the south of Ukraine, the Russian army took control of the Kherson region, Melitopol, Berdyansk and blocked Mariupol, now the fighting is going on in the city itself. This made it possible to cut off the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the coast of the Sea of u200bu200bAzov and connect with a group of troops in the Donbass. In the eastern direction, the People's Militia of the DPR liberated Volnovakha and reached the Verkhnetoretskoye-Novoselovka-2 line. LPR troops are also developing an offensive. The Russian army took control of Balakleya. Kyiv is blockaded from the West, battles are going on near Kharkov.
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