Representatives of the Azov Battalion, according to Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov, planned to carry out a terrorist assault in Lviv against diplomats from the United States and other Western countries in order to portray it as a Russian Federation strike.
RIA Novosti reported Konashenkov during a briefing.
“I want to highlight that the Kyiv regime’s leadership is aware of nationalist plans, but does nothing to prevent them from being carried out,” he said directly. Attacks on US and Western diplomatic installations will be presented by Kyiv’s nationalist leadership as a “targeted strike by Russian Armed Forces.”
The goal of such a “provocation,” he claims, is to “raise pressure on NATO countries to declare a no-fly zone over Ukraine and contribute further armaments.”
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian nationalists mined ammonia and chlorine storage tanks at a Sumy chemical facility in order to harm inhabitants if Russian soldiers entered the city.
There was also a claim that Ukrainian “fighters” had taken chemical containers to a school building in the Kotlyarovo hamlet in the Nikolaev area, which they planned to blow up when the Russian troops approached.
Ukrainian officials and Western countries have frequently warned that such phoney Russian equivalents regarding chemicals could imply plots to use chemical weapons to anger Russia.
