Russian Defense Ministry: Kiev is preparing to blame Russia over use of toxic substances in Ukrainian outskirts of Kharkov

The spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, revealed that the Ukrainian security services are planning to blow up a warehouse containing 120 tons of chlorine in order to blame Russia.

Russia Today quoted Konashenkov as saying, “According to confirmed information in the city of Pervomaisky, located on the outskirts of Kharkov, the Ukrainian security services are preparing for a major provocation  using toxic substances by blowing up a warehouse containing 120 tons of chlorine on the territory of the Khimprom industrial complex,” warning that planning to blow up this warehouse is to accuse Russia of causing a chemical disaster and killing local residents.

In addition, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that a group of foreign-made Ukrainian military vehicles had been destroyed by a strike by Russian forces on the Lozovaya train station in the Kharkov region of eastern Ukraine.

The ministry added in a statement that its forces had destroyed a command center of the 56th Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and a base belonging to ultra-nationalists in Donetsk province, in addition to the destruction of fuel depots on the outskirts of Chugov city in Kharkov province.

Inas Abdulkareem