“In the city of Nikolaev, the militants of the territorial defense prepared another sophisticated provocation with numerous victims,” Mizintsev said.

According to the Ministry of Defense, for this, near the Nikolaev Aircraft Repair Plant enterprise along Znamenskaya Street, neo-Nazis installed radio-controlled explosive devices with striking elements.

Ukrainian nationalists plan to set off explosive devices in a mass gathering of civilians and blame the Russian military for this, Mizintsev concluded.

Earlier, the Ministry of Defense warned about the risk of an epidemiological catastrophe in Nikolaev.