According to him, the Ukrainian military is preparing a provocation to accuse the Russian Armed Forces of inflicting indiscriminate strikes on civilian objects.

“For this purpose, neo-Nazis forcibly keep the staff of the institution in the building of the Topolek orphanage (Bulvarnaya Street).

At the same time, the building is mined and the militants of the nationalist units are planning to blow it up with the start of the Russian troops’ artillery strikes on military targets,” Mizintsev said at a briefing.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that Ukrainian militants were preparing a provocation with chlorine in the DPR in order to accuse Russian troops of indiscriminate strikes on chemically hazardous facilities.