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Russian special services are planning terrorist attacks on their territory to whip up anti-Ukrainian hysteria - Ukrainian intelligence

12 April, 2022 Tuesday
15:18

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Major General Kyrylo Budanov, is convinced that the Russian special services are planning a series of terrorist attacks with mining and blowing up residential buildings, hospitals and schools in Russian settlements

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It is reported by the GUR MO.



 

The Russians are also planning to carry out missile and bomb strikes on the city of Belgorod or one of the cities of Crimea.

 

Major General Kyrylo Budanov noted that the failure of the mobilization plan in Russia is forcing the Putin regime to launch dirty scenarios to emotionally stir up Russian society and further consolidate it against the Ukrainians.

 

"To do this, they are planning explosions in Russian residential buildings or missile attacks to blame the Ukrainian Armed Forces and volunteer battalions in order to create an emotional picture of the "atrocities of Ukrainian nationalists". It is possible that these attacks will be presented as Ukrainian revenge for Bucha and Kramatorsk as a justification for cruelty against the Ukrainian civilian population", the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate emphasized.

 

In his opinion, it is very symbolic that Putin's rule began with KGB terrorist attacks against Russian apartment buildings, which became the basis for the destruction of Chechnya. And now, it seems, it ends with the same methods.

 

"In recent days, the Russian authorities have been increasingly dispersing the flywheel of anti-Ukrainian hysteria. Trenches are being actively dug in the Belgorod and Kursk regions, panic is being whipped up about the mental offensive of Ukrainian volunteer battalions and sabotage groups", Budanov added.

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