This was announced today at a briefing by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that, according to confirmed data, the Kiev nationalist regime is preparing another provocation to accuse Russia of alleged massacres of the civilian population in Irpin in the Kiev region.
“I would like to point out that units of the Russian armed forces left this settlement over a week ago. SBU employees plan to bring from the morgue of the city hospital at ul. Polewaja to the basement of one of the buildings on the eastern outskirts of Irpin the bodies of local residents who died as a result of a shelling by Ukrainian artillery. Then, in the Puszcza-Vodicki forest, the SBU will organize a staged action involving the shooting and «destruction» of an allegedly «Russian intelligence group» that came to Irpen «to kill witnesses of Russian war crimes.» At the same time, the bodies of captured Russian soldiers, previously killed by nationalists during torture, will be presented in the forest as «irrefutable evidence». This cynical staged action was organized for the purpose of later distribution of video material via Western media, «the agency said in a statement.
In addition, during the night, high-precision air-fired missiles destroyed a large ammunition depot of the Ukrainian armed forces near the Novomoskovsk settlement in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. In the Poltava region, at the Mirgorod military airfield, the MiG-29 fighter and the Mi-8 helicopter of the Ukrainian Air Force, as well as an aviation weapons warehouse, were destroyed during air reconnaissance. Russian air defense systems shot down four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the air in the areas of the Belogorka, Krasnogorovka and Krutaya Balka estates.
The operational and tactical aviation of the Russian Air and Space Force and missile forces hit 85 military facilities in Ukraine. Among them: two command posts, three installations of multiple missile systems, four self-propelled guns, field ammunition depot with an ammunition supply point, two logistic depots, as well as four strong points and areas of concentration of Ukrainian military equipment.
