Volgens woordvoerder Vadim Skibitski van het ministerie van Defensie zouden Russische specialisten sinds half december in de Donbas verblijven. Ook zou beschermende kleding zijn gearriveerd voor de rebellen. Als een van de aanwijzingen wordt aangevoerd dat de separatisten al wekenlang melding maken van een op handen zijnde chemische aanval met hulp van Britse specialisten.
Er wordt daarbij gewezen op de aanval met chemische wapens op 24 november bij de Syrische stad Aleppo. Volgens Syrië en Rusland zou die aanval het werk zijn van de oppositie, maar is intussen duidelijk dat het hier om een Russische actie ging.
Bron: Unian
Russia plotting
chemical attack in Donbas – Ukraine intel
16:57, 29 December 2018
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A group of Russian specialists in the field of chemical warfare agents
and toxic substances arrived in the occupied Donbas in the middle of
December, according to intelligence data.
Photo from UNIAN
Photo from UNIAN
Representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of
Defense of Ukraine Vadym Skibitsky says Russia is plotting a terrorist
act in the occupied Donbas with the use of toxic substances.
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"Ukraine's military intelligence is observing a number of intelligence
indicators that clearly show Russia is plotting a terrorist act with the
use of chemically hazardous toxic substances, which will further be
covered by Russian propagandists as an employment of 'chemical weapons'
against residents in the occupied Donbas by the Ukrainian troops.
Russia's security forces are counting on a significant number of
civilian casualties," he told a briefing on December 29.
Moreover, the intelligence directorate established that a group of
Russian specialists in the field of chemical warfare agents and toxic
substances arrived in the occupied Donbas in the middle of December.
The enemy also increased readiness of the Russian occupation forces to
operate amid chemical contamination. The newest individual protective
means for personnel of the 1st and 2nd Army Corps of the Russian
occupation troops were delivered from Russia in order to test them in
combat conditions.
According to the intelligence official, the occupation authorities are
already conducting an influence operation in the occupied territories to
convince local residents that Ukraine is plotting a chemical attack on
civilians.
"In order to create public opinion favorable to it, Moscow has been
conducting a large-scale information campaign for more than a month on
accusing Ukraine of hidden preparation for such actions. The Main
Intelligence Directorate states that Russia conducted a similar
influence operation on the eve of simulation of chemical attack near
Aleppo in Syria on November 24 this year to justify further air strikes
against Syrian opposition forces," Skibitsky stressed.
As UNIAN reported earlier, on the first day of the New Year truce,
starting midnight December 29, Russia-backed militants opened fire from
grenade launchers on the Ukrainian positions near the village of Zalizne
in the Horlivka direction.
Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/war/10394961-russia-plotting-chemical-attack-in-donbas-ukraine-intel.html
Read more on UNIAN: https://www.unian.info/war/10394961-russia-plotting-chemical-attack-in-donbas-ukraine-intel.html
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