Ukrainian troops and nationalists plotting provocations at chemical facilities in Donbass

Ukrainian armed forces and nationalist battalions are plotting provocations at chemical plants in Donbass, Mikhail Mizintsev, chief of Russia’s National Defense Management Center, said on Friday.

“It has been reliably ascertained that at the instruction of patrons from the United States and Great Britain Ukrainian army units and nationalist battalions are equipping heavy defended fortified areas at large enterprises, including of the chemical industry,” he said.

According to Mizintsev, militants have deployed heavy weapons on the territory of the Azot plant in Severodonetsk in the Lugansk People’s Republic and are holding more than 1,000 plant’s employees and local residents at the plant’s underground premises as a human shield. Moreover, nationalists systematically open fire from multiple missile launcher systems at the settlements of Pervomaisk, Stakhanov, and Kalinovo to provoke the Russian army to return fire and later accuse Russian troops of killing civilians and causing an industrial disaster.

 Apart from that, neo-Nazis have mined containers with hazardous chemical agents to blow them up when forced to leave their positions.

He added that such provocations are plotted at other facilities within the so-called “chemical industry triangle,” i.e. in Severodonetsk, Lisichansk, and Rubezhnoye, where more than 30 chemical facilities are located.

Source: Itar Tass