A fragment of a shell that landed in the courtyard of a house in Donetsk. File photoMOSCOW, June 1Ukrainian nationalists are planning to deploy American long-range missile systems in the city of Shostka, Sumy region, to strike at Russian territory, the head of the Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response, head of the National Center, said on Wednesday Defense Command Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev.
"In the near future, Shostka is expected to receive long-range missile systems from the United States, with the help of which the militants of the armed formations of Ukraine, on the orders of the SBU, plan to strike at the border territory of the Russian Federation directly from residential areas of the city", he said.< /p>According to the general, the militants want to provoke a response and then accuse the Russian Armed Forces of indiscriminate shelling of the civilian population and infrastructure. The Kyiv authorities also plan to bring journalists, including foreign ones, to the city to create fake photo and video materials that will be be widely distributed by Western news agencies.Ukraine's territorial defense units set up a weapons depot at a lyceum in OdesaHe clarified that operational information about an impending «inhuman provocation» in the Sumy region was obtained as a result of interception of radio communications. Earlier, the head of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, promised not to use the new HIMARS systems for attacks on Russian territory. In turn, the press secretary of President Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov, stressed that Moscow does not trust the statements of Kyiv, and the competent departments are taking appropriate measures to protect the country. Russia launched a special operation in Ukraine on February 24. Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the main tasks of the first stage have already been completed — Ukraine's combat potential has been significantly reduced. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.