MOSCOW, May 18. /TASS/. Ukrainian forces prepare a provocation with shooting of civilian residents of Konstantinovka, Donetsk People’s Republic, by militants, disguised in Russian uniforms, Russian National Defense Control Center head Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev announced Wednesday.

"According to the captured Ukrainian servicemen, the Kiev regime, led by Western curators, plans another provocation via the Bucha scenario in Konstantinovka, Donetsk People’s Republic. Ukrainian militants, dressed in uniforms of Russian servicemen, with white armbands, must shoot Ukrainian civilians on camera," Mizintsev said.

According to Mizintsev, photos and video footage of this crime, filmed on dashcams of allegedly random passing cars will be widely disseminated by specialists of the Ukrainian Center of Information and Psychological Operations in Western media and on numerous websites after the town is liberated by Russian forces.

"The sophistication of such cynical and cruel provocations, initiated by the foreign curators, has, without exaggeration, crossed out all existing norms of morality, and the modern Ukrainian nationalists, from the standpoint of the inhumane methods they use, have become the successors of the Great Patriotic War-era Nazis," Mizintsev believes.