New fake: Russia to announce an alleged Ukrainian attack on US diplomats in Lviv

Kateryna Tyschenko – Saturday, 19 March 2022, 20:52

Igor Konashenkov, spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, claimed that members of the Azov battalion are supposedly planning to carry out a terrorist attack on diplomats from the US and other Western countries in Lviv, with the intention of presenting it as an attack by the Russian Federation.

Source: Igor Konashenkov in a press briefing, cited in RIA Novosti

According to Konashenkov: "I want to stress that the government of the Kyiv regime is informed about the nationalists’ plans but is not taking any measures to prevent their implementation. The nationalist regime in Kyiv plans to present the attack on the US, and other Western countries’ diplomatic targets as a ‘targeted attack of the Russian Armed Forces’."

Details: Konashenko said that the goal of such a "provocation" is "to strengthen the pressure on  NATO countries to establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine and the provision of additional weapons."

The Russian Ministry of Defence also stated that the so-called Ukrainian nationalists have planted mines in ammonia and chlorine storage facilities on the grounds of the Sumy chemical plant in order to poison the city’s residents if the Russian troops enter Sumy.

Moreover, the Ministry said that Ukrainian ‘militants’ brought containers with chemicals to a school building in the village of Kotlyarova in the Mykolaiv region, and are allegedly planning to detonate them when the Russian military approaches.

Ukrainian authorities and Western countries have repeatedly warned that such fakes concerning chemical substances disseminated by Russia could indicate the country’s plans to carry out a provocation involving chemical weapons.

Background: Russia has already spread a considerable number of fakes regarding Ukraine.

For example, Russia claimed that laboratories in Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Odesa were investigating the possibility of using migratory birds to spread particularly dangerous infectious diseases. In addition, Russian troops allegedly "exposed" plans for a project in which bats would be used to transmit viruses.

They also claimed to have found so-called "combat drugs", and to have destroyed plague and anthrax pathogens in Ukraine.

The Russians also launched a fake allegation that Jews were being persecuted in the Zhytomyr region.

On 18 March, the UN Security Council rejected Russia’s fake accusations of the alleged existence of "US military-biological activity in Ukraine."