Ukrainian forces planning provocations with US-made rockets: Moscow
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Russia says Ukraine is planning on committing another provocation by using missiles delivered by the United States to Kiev and launching them on Russian soil.
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The High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)
Verified documents obtained from intercepted radio communications show that Kiev has plans to commit another inhuman provocation in the city of Shomska in the Sumy Region, Russian National Defense Control Center chief Mikhail Mizintsev said late Wednesday.
He explained that Ukrainian militants are planning on firing long-range rockets expected to be shipped by the US shortly at Russian territories to provoke Moscow into a response.
"The Kiev regime plans another inhuman provocation in the city of Shostka, Sumy Region," he said.
"In the near future, a shipment of US-made long-range rocket systems is expected at Shostka, which Ukrainian forces plan, under orders from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), to fire at the territory of the Russian Federation directly from the city’s residential areas," he added.
"By doing so, Ukrainian neo-Nazis plan to provoke return fire from Russian Armed Forces in order to accuse them of indiscriminate fire at civilian infrastructure and elimination of civilian population," Mizintsev explained.
The Pentagon announced earlier today that it had made up its mind about providing High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine, citing a shift in the nature of the conflict, which it says became an "artillery duel".
US President Joe Biden announced earlier today that his country would provide Ukraine with more advanced rocket systems and munitions, which include HIMARS rocket systems.
However, he stressed that Washington would not provide Kiev with weapons capable of targeting Russian territory.
Mizintsev, on the other hand, underscored that Kiev planned on involving Ukrainian and foreign reporters to set up fake photos and videos about the alleged murder of civilians at the hands of the Russian forces, which would then be widely shared by and in Western media.
He underscored that Kiev authorities plan to involve Ukrainian and foreign reporters to prepare fake photo and video materials about the alleged murder of civilians by Russian forces, which will then be widely disseminated by the Western media.
The HIMARSs are the centerpiece of this $700 million package that was unveiled today, which includes "Javelin anti-tank missiles, Stinger antiaircraft missiles, powerful artillery and precision rocket systems, radars, unmanned aerial vehicles, Mi-17 helicopters and ammunition," Biden said in his op-ed published in The New York Times.
In the initial phase of the conflict, Under-Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl said, especially as the Ukrainians were trying to repel the Russian forces in and around Kiev, Washington was heavily providing anti-armor systems, such as Javelin missiles and anti-air systems like Stingers.
The United States has given Ukraine more than $5 billion in military supplies since Biden took office in 2021, a senior Biden administration official revealed.
Moscow had sent a formal diplomatic note to the United States warning that Washington and Brussels' arms shipments were adding fuel to the fire of the war in Ukraine, stressing that this matter could bring upon "unpredictable consequences".
