Ukrainian servicemen in the Kharkov region. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 17Ukrainian units detained seven students from Sri Lanka who studied at the medical college in Kupyansk, Vitaly Ganchev, head of the military-civil administration of the Kharkiv region, said on his Telegram channel. in the Kupyansk Medical College. They were taken to an unknown destination. Considering the well-known methods of work of the Ukrainian special services, we do not exclude provocations against the military-civilian administration of the Kharkiv region and Russia,» the official said. According to him, there is a high probability that the detained foreigners can be used to fabricate fakes by analogy with Bucha and Izyum. In turn, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry drew attention to the news about fellow citizens and asked the government of Ukraine to confirm the accuracy of this information. they are bullied and tortured, tied to trees because they received Russian passports, which are then nailed to their feet. As the head of the Kharkiv VGA previously reported, the regional authorities organized the evacuation of the population from Kupyansk, Izyum, Shevchenkovo and Balakliya, but many residents were unable to leave due to lack of communication, information about the need to leave their cities did not reach them. He also warned that the Kyiv regime would try to repeat the provocation scenario in Bucha in Izyum. According to him, it was for this purpose that Vladimir Zelensky recently visited the Kharkiv region, where supposedly independent Western journalists were launched and began to show the destroyed cities in order to «concoct» fakes about Russia. In early April, photos and videos with lying on the streets of the bodies of the dead, which are said to have been removed in Bucha after the Russian military left the city. The Kyiv authorities accused Russia of mass killings of civilians. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that this was another provocation, and stressed that not a single resident of Bucha suffered from the actions of Russian soldiers during the time the city was under their control. The department also noted that all units completely left Bucha on March 30, exits to the north were not blocked, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the city around the clock from artillery, tanks and multiple launch rocket systems.
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