Captured soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that Kyiv was preparing a new provocation in the DPR

Bus with surrendered Ukrainian soldiers . Archival photoMOSCOW, May 18.The Kyiv regime, under the leadership of Western curators, is preparing a provocation in the city of Konstantinovka in the DPR according to the Bucha scenario, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center, said, referring to a statement by captured Ukrainian soldiers. «According to the testimonies of captured servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic, the Kyiv regime under the leadership of Western curators is preparing another provocation according to the» Buchinsk «scenario. To implement it, the militants, dressed in the uniform of Russian servicemen with white armbands, must shoot Ukrainian civilians on camera,» — said the general.The Investigative Committee will study the testimony of a British mercenary in the case of a provocation in BuchaHe clarified that specialists from the center for information and psychological operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine plan to disseminate the relevant photo and video materials, including those taken by registrars of allegedly passing cars, in the Western media and on various Internet resources after the release this city by Russian troops. Mizintsev said that the sophistication of such cynical and cruel provocations at the suggestion of foreign curators, «without exaggeration, crossed out all existing norms of morality, and modern Ukrainian nationalists, in the context of the inhumane methods used, have become the» heirs «of the Nazis of the Great Patriotic War» .The Russian Ministry of Defense previously stated that all photographs and video materials published by the Kyiv regime, allegedly testifying to the «crimes» of the Russian military in the city of Bucha, Kyiv region, are «another provocation.» As noted in the military department, during the stay of this populated area about the point under the control of the Russian armed forces, not a single local resident suffered from any violent actions. The ministry emphasized that all our units completely left Bucha on March 30, and exits from the city in a northern direction were not blocked, while the southern outskirts , including residential areas, were shelled around the clock by Ukrainian troops from large-caliber artillery, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.