Shards of shells fired by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Archival photoMOSCOW, 20 Jun. Ukrainian troops have deployed an artillery battery, from which they periodically shell the residential areas of Kharkiv, a provocation is being prepared, said Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia. civilians, as well as creating conditions for their eviction from their apartments and placement of firing positions in empty premises,» the Colonel General said. detained four accomplices of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kharkiv regionAccording to him, the Kyiv authorities plan to use Ukrainian and foreign journalists for this, they will prepare fake photo and video materials, which will then be distributed by Western media. «, formed mainly m of radicals and rapists and murderers released from prisons, carry out punitive raids. At night they break into the houses of local residents suspected by the SBU of pro-Russian sentiments, subject them to physical violence and take them away in an unknown direction. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a military operation in Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stated, 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 army has already completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation.
