Ukraine is preparing a new provocation to disrupt negotiations between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
A group of foreign journalists has already been taken to the city of Chuguev in Kharkov Region, in order to “prepare a series of reports about residents of the city in the frontline zone,” the ministry said. The Ukrainian Army is plotting a provocative strike using UAVs and missiles on one of Chuguev’s densely populated residential areas or a hospital, which will be “immediately recorded by the Western journalists brought in.”
“As a result of the Kiev regime’s provocation, all responsibility for the strike and civilian casualties will be placed on Russia’s Armed Forces[.] Provocations are also possible in other settlements controlled by Ukraine,” the statement published on Tuesday said.
In April 2022, Ukrainian forces claimed to have found the bodies of hundreds of people in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, shortly after Russian troops left the area as part of a “goodwill gesture” by Moscow amid peace talks with Kiev. Ukraine immediately blamed the deaths on Russia and subsequently used the incident as one of the main reasons for its withdrawal from peace negotiations. Moscow has repeatedly said the so-called massacre was a false-flag operation intended to tarnish its image and derail the diplomatic process.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said he appealed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres three times to provide the lists of bodies found in Bucha, “but there is just silence in response.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry has also accused Ukrainian forces of executing civilians in a Donbass town as part of a “false flag”operation designed to wrongly frame Moscow for war crimes.
According to the ministry, witnesses claimed that mercenaries, including alleged Polish nationals, carried out dozens of killings in Selidovo in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic before retreating in the face of advancing Russian troops in late October.
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