“The Investigative Committee will request and study, as part of the investigation of criminal cases, the data of the Ministry of Defense about the next provocation being prepared by the Ukrainian regime in the city of Sumy,” the department quotes TASS.
Earlier, the head of the National Center for Defense Control of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that Ukrainian militants were preparing a provocation using poisonous substances in Sumy in order to blame the Russian armed forces for it.
Prior to this, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Ukrainian nationalists from the Azov and Aidar battalions had set up firing positions in the buildings of kindergartens, hospitals and churches.