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Ukrainian nationalists plot provocation at Severodonetsk plant — diplomat

"According to Kiev's plan, the explosion of tanks with more than 100 tons of nitrate and nitric acid should delay the advance of the Russian Armed Forces and the Donbass republics," Maria Zakharova said
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova Russian Foreign Ministry/TASS
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
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MOSCOW, June 8. /TASS/. Ukrainian nationalists are preparing a provocation, they plan to mine tanks with toxic chemicals at a plant in Severodonetsk and keep workers and civilians on its territory, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday.

"Let's look at what is really being prepared. Another provocation by Ukrainian nationalists is being prepared, namely the mining of tanks with toxic chemicals at the Azot plant in Severodonetsk on the LPR territory and the detention of more than 1,000 factory workers and local residents in its underground facilities," the diplomat pointed out.

"According to Kiev's plan, the explosion of tanks with more than 100 tons of nitrate and nitric acid should delay the advance of the Russian Armed Forces and the Donbass republics. And they plan to blame Russia for the technogenic disaster with human casualties, as always," Zakharova said.

According to the diplomat, it is regrettable that "the Kiev regime fabricates such fakes at the cost of the lives of its own civilians." "But in general we saw what they did in the city of Bucha, and we saw what they did in Kramatorsk. And we are waiting for concrete data, the report of the West, which directly and indirectly indulged and became an accomplice of the Kiev regime's crimes in Bucha and Kramatorsk," Zakharova concluded.