Ukrainian territorial defense exercises in KharkivMOSCOW, Mar 7The Security Service of Ukraine, together with the nationalists, are preparing a provocation with possible radioactive contamination of the area in the Kharkiv region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Nationalists, according to the Russian military, mined a reactor at an experimental nuclear facility at the Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology.
Kyiv is not negotiating the evacuation of Kharkiv and Sumy, the Ministry of Defense said»The SBU and militants of the Azov battalion plan to blow up the reactor and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly delivering a missile attack on an experimental nuclear facility,» the Ministry of Defense added. On March 6, they arrived in Kharkiv foreign journalists to record the consequences of the provocation, in order to then accuse Russia of an environmental catastrophe. Provocation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant Earlier, Russian leader Vladimir Putin told French President Emmanuel Macron in detail about the provocation in the area of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which was staged by Ukrainian nationalists. According to the Ministry of Defense, on Friday night about Nuclear power plant, Ukrainian saboteurs attacked a mobile patrol of the Russian Guard, which was patrolling the territory. From the windows of the educational and training complex, located outside the power plant, heavy fire from small arms was opened on the Russian Guardsmen. In response, the firing points of the radicals were suppressed. As indicated by the defense department, the sabotage group set fire to the building as they left it.Kyiv was involved in the means of delivery of a nuclear charge, the source said. During a telephone conversation, Macron expressed concern about ensuring the safety of nuclear power plants in Ukraine. Putin also noted that attempts to shift responsibility for the incident to the Russian military is cynical propaganda. The President added that the Armed Forces also control the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in order to exclude the possibility of provocations.Special military operationOn February 24, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. At the same time, as Putin emphasized, there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine.
