Ukrainian serviceman near Kyiv. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 28.Ukrainian militants are preparing a provocation using poisonous substances to blame the Russian Armed Forces for it, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center, said. «According to information received from prisoners militants of the nationalist battalions are preparing another provocation in the city of Sumy,» he said. neo-Nazis are planning to shell the Russian border area from the residential area of Sumy, provoking Russian units to retaliate, and then blow up containers with chemically hazardous substances. Journalists from foreign news agencies are in Sumy for photo and video shooting. «At the same time, if earlier, in the course of preparing such monstrous provocations, the civilian population was evacuated from the area of planned infection, now, in order to obtain «maximum resonance», the evacuation of citizens is not carried out,» he said. The general warned that in the near future Kyiv plans to widely disseminate fakes about «Russian atrocities» through Ukrainian and Western media, as well as on various Internet resources and media platforms. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, by the end of March, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal.
