Servicemen of the Ukrainian army. Archival photoMOSCOW, 23 May. The Ukrainian military mined containers with hazardous chemicals at the plant of rare gases in Lisichansk in order to carry out a provocation and accuse the Russian military of indiscriminate shelling, said Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Center for Defense Control of the Russian Federation. of the Rare Gas Plant, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine placed cannon artillery and MLRS, mined containers with chemically hazardous substances, and underground structures forcibly keep employees of the plant and local residents. provoking them to retaliate in order to further accuse them of killing civilians and creating a man-made disaster in the city,» he said.Ukrainian nationalists placed firing positions in the schools of OdessaThe general also spoke about another upcoming action: according to him, in Putivl, Sumy region, Ukrainian neo-Nazis mined bridges across the Seim and Lyubka rivers, which they plan to blow up and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of supposedly indiscriminate strikes according to an already worked out scenario on vital civilian infrastructure. Mizintsev stressed that such facts once again demonstrate the complete disregard of the Ukrainian authorities for moral standards and the provisions of international humanitarian law. 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.
