The head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, announced a provocation being prepared by the Ukrainian side in the Sumy region, the consequences of which are planned to be blamed on Russia.

“According to the available reliable information, the SBU officers are preparing another provocation with the use of hazardous chemicals.

In the city of Sumy, servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and militants of territorial defense units were issued chemical protection suits.

Conducted training on the procedure for declaring a chemical alarm.

According to the plan of the "Kyiv scriptwriters", units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will launch artillery strikes on the border regions of Russia from the settlements of the Sumy region.

After a staged retaliatory fire attack, allegedly carried out by the Russian armed forces, Ukrainian special services plan to spray potent poisonous substances in the provocation area, ”Mizintsev said.

According to him, it is planned to record this with the participation of specialists from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), in order to then accuse the Russian military of using chemical weapons against civilians.

“Once again, we draw the attention of the world community to the fact that the Russian Armed Forces do not use chemical weapons.

All its stocks in the Russian Federation have been destroyed in accordance with the concluded agreements, ”the Ministry of Defense emphasized.

Along with this, the department stated that the Ukrainian armed formations continue to use civilian infrastructure facilities for military purposes.

In particular, the militants of the defense battalions were housed in school buildings in Nikolaev and Kremenchug, and firing points and artillery positions were equipped in the adjacent territories.

In the center of children's and youth creativity in the village of Druzhkovka on the territory of the DPR controlled by the Kyiv regime, the militants deployed a territorial defense headquarters.

The strongholds of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are also located in the buildings of the House of Culture and the Agricultural College in Konstantinovka.

UK will study the facts of food terrorism

In turn, the Investigative Committee of Russia announced its intention to study the data presented by the Ministry of Defense about the arson by Ukrainian militants of a storage facility with grain in the port of Mariupol, which is regarded as food terrorism by Kyiv.

“It has been reliably established that the militants of the nationalist battalions, leaving the occupied territories, deliberately set fire to a large granary in the seaport of Mariupol.

As a result, more than 50 thousand tons of grain were destroyed,” the UK said.

The department also said that a former pioneer camp was discovered near Krasny Liman, which Ukrainian radicals used to instill Nazism in schoolchildren, and later - as a command post.

“During the offensive of the Russian troops, the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine abandoned the object.

There were food supplies, means of communication and coordination, as well as Nazi paraphernalia.

In addition, trenches and places of residence of Ukrainian troops were found on the territory of the camp, ”the Investigative Committee reported.

Appointments in the government of the DPR

In the meantime, a major reshuffle took place in the government of the DNR.

Vitaly Khotsenko, who since 2019 has headed the Department of Regional Industrial Policy and Project Management of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, has been appointed Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic.

His deputies were Evgeny Solntsev, ex-assistant to the Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities of Russia, and Alexander Kostomarov, former First Deputy Governor of the Ulyanovsk Region.

The corresponding decrees were signed by the head of the republic Denis Pushilin.

According to him, the reorganization of the Cabinet was caused by the need to strengthen integration processes with Russia.

The head of the DPR added that the new head of government has enough experience to build his effective work.

“Many of the members of the previous team will remain in their places, but, of course, changes are inevitable, and now I am counting on the position of the new prime minister.

He needs to build a team, prioritize.

And then we will move on,” Pushilin said on the air of the Russia 24 TV channel.

He offered the former head of the government of the DPR, Alexander Ananchenko, to lead the development of the public sector.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Denis Manturov, confirmed that the new head of the DPR government was in charge of regional industrial policy in the ministry.

“Vitaly Khotsenko managed to prove himself worthy both as a regional minister of the industrial block and as a curator of work with the regions in the federal ministry,” RIA Novosti quotes Manturov.

“And of course, he will be able to count on our support in solving problems related to the work of the industrial complex of the DPR.”