Russian Defense Ministry: Kyiv is preparing a military provocation with the death of its own citizens

“On October 24, in the city of Volchansk, Kharkiv region, during the distribution of food aid to residents, a unit of foreign mercenaries will shell a place of accumulation of civilians from artillery pieces,” the report says.

According to available data, the provocation is aimed at discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and the subsequent accusation of the Russian side in the death of the population. 

Earlier, the commander of the Joint Group of Forces in the area of ​​​​the NMD, General of the Army Sergei Surovikin, said that the Russian military had information about the preparation by the Ukrainian military of a massive missile attack on the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, which could lead to heavy casualties among the civilian population.

In turn, Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said that the Russian side distributed a letter to the UN Security Council, in which it called on the organization's leadership to prevent Ukraine's provocation at the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region.