Russia’s Interdepartmental Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine accused the country’s special services of preparing a large-scale provocation aimed at accusing the Russian armed forces of war crimes. telegraph channel Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
According to the Ministry of Defense, on the eve of Orthodox Christmas, the SBI and the Security Council of Ukraine organized work “to open burials in the cemeteries of the settlements of Cossack Lopan, Veliky Burluk, Shipovatoye and Khatnoye in the Kharkov region.” According to the Russian military department, local residents who died of natural causes while the Russian army was in the settlements were buried in graves.
“After the excavation, the bodies of Ukrainian citizens were further disfigured and thrown into specially prepared “pits” on the outskirts of these settlements to create a false “base of evidence” that the civilian population was “tortured” and “executed” by the Russians. military personnel, ”said the Russian ministry.
They also accused the Ukrainian special services of making photo and video recordings of the bodies of the dead in the presence of “witnesses” and imitating the work of forensic experts and other procedural actions.
In this way, the Ministry of Defense assures that Kiev is “trying to attract the attention of the Western audience against the background of the lack of success on the battlefield” and convinces that more support is needed.
Formerly MO RF declaration On carrying out a “reprisal operation” in response to the bombing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on January 1 at the point where Russian military personnel were temporarily stationed at Makeevka in the DPR.