Kiev is preparing provocation to discredit Russia:  Russian Defense Ministry

MOSCOW- Kiev is preparing a large-scale information campaign to discredit Russia on the international arena. A representative of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of Russia for humanitarian response in Ukraine said this to reporters on Saturday.

“According to available data, confirmed by several independent sources, a large-scale provocation aimed at discrediting the Russian Federation on the international arena is being prepared under the leadership of the office of the President of Ukraine,” the headquarters said.

They specified that the Kiev regime would hold a special information campaign to divert the attention of the international community from UN-published facts about numerous war crimes committed by the Ukrainian army and militants of nationalist groups.

Earlier, a representative of the interdepartmental coordination headquarters of Russia for humanitarian response in Ukraine told reporters on Saturday that the Kiev regime is preparing a provocation in the Sumy region, imitating the use of artillery ammunition with toxic substances by the Russian armed forces.

“For its implementation, over the past two weeks, they prepared an alleged site of “the front line of defense of the Ukrainian armed forces on the line of combat contact with Russian troops” in the settlement of Akhtyrka in the Sumy region. From the mortuaries they are going to bring bodies and remains of dead Ukrainian servicemen, whose death allegedly occurred as a result of use of “Russian” artillery ammunition equipped with “poisonous substances,” to the equipped pseudo-positions,” the headquarters said.

The headquarters representative noted that it is planned to treat the area and the remains of Ukrainian servicemen with a poisonous substance. “This will allow invited experts from Western countries, who are currently on the territory of Ukraine, to document the alleged use of “chemical weapons” by the Russian armed forces,” the interdepartmental coordination headquarters said.

Source: Itar Tass

Edited by Hamda Mustafa