Russian MoD: Kyiv preparers provocation through using toxic substances on outskirts of Kharkov

Moscow, SANA- The Russian Defense Ministry Spokesperson, Major General Igor Konashenkov has revealed that the Ukrainian security services are planning to blow up a depot containing 120 tons of chlorine in order to blame Russia.

“According to confirmed information in Pervomaiskyi city on the outskirts of Kharkov, the Ukrainian security services are preparing for a major provocation using toxic substances by mining a depot containing 120 tons of chlorine on the territory of the Khimprom industrial complex,” Konashenkov was quoted by RT as saying.

He warned that planning to blow up this depot is to accuse Russia of causing a chemical disaster and killing local population.

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

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