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) implementation in the Kharkiv region, units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine deployed an artillery battery with the task of shelling the Zmiev thermal power plant,” he said at a briefing.
Mizintsev added that as a result of an attack on thermal power plants, the population of Kharkiv, Poltava and Sumy regions, as well as hundreds of life support facilities, could be left without electricity.
Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) are preparing a new provocation using hazardous chemicals in the Sumy region.