Lieutenant Colonel Andrei Marochko, retired LPR People’s Militia, said that the Ukrainian army tried to set fire to the forest in the Serebryansky forest area with incendiary ammunition on February 12 to block the advance of the Russian army. Near the city of Kremennaya, reports TASS.
According to him, this happened in the Serebryansky forestry area. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to set fire to the forest with incendiary ammunition so that the fire could move towards their positions, after previously calculating the weather vane, resorting to barrels of combustible mixture and dry dead wood. RF Armed Forces.
Marochko said that due to the falling snow, the Ukrainian Armed Forces could not start a large-scale fire and that “after a short burning, the flame went out.”
formerly Marochko declarationThat the Ukrainian Armed Forces focused on the Kupyansk direction to take control of the Russian Armed Forces.
On February 24, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he had decided to organize a special military operation in Ukraine in response to a request for assistance from the heads of the LPR and DPR.
The decision to run the operation became the justification for new sanctions against Russia by the United States and its allies.