“Despite the acute shortage of grain and the threat of a food crisis, Ukrainian armed forces, neglecting the well-being of their own people, continue to use critical facilities for processing and storing grain crops for military purposes,” the ministry said in a statement.
In particular, the Ukrainian military deployed weapons on the territory of elevators and granaries in the settlements of the Kharkiv and Sumy regions, in the settlements of Novoekonomicheskoye and Novodonetskoe of the Donetsk People's Republic.
According to the Ministry of Defense, the purpose of such actions is to provoke return fire and the subsequent accusation of the Russian side.
It also became known that Ukrainian nationalists deliberately set a fire in the port of Mariupol and destroyed more than 50 thousand tons of grain.
Earlier, the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, said that Ukrainian militants settled in schools, a college, a technical school and a boarding school in the city of Slavyansk.
In addition, Ukrainian nationalists set up artillery positions in the courtyards of residential buildings on Astronomicheskaya Street in Kharkiv.