The Ukrainian government is preparing a false-flag attack against a
railway station filled with civilian refugees, in order to accuse Russia
of war crimes, the Russian military announced on Friday. Moscow cited
intelligence to name the target, method, and even point of origin of the
impending attack, which it said was patterned after the recent carnage in
Kramatorsk.

“The Kiev regime is preparing another monstrous provocation, similar to
the one carried out in Kramatorsk, to accuse Russian servicemen of war
crimes with a massacre of civilians,” Lieutenant General Mikhail
Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Management Center, said on Friday
afternoon.

According to Mizintsev, the 19th Missile Brigade of the Armed Forces of
Ukraine intends “in the near future” to fire a Tochka-U tactical ballistic
missile at “the accumulation of refugees at the railway station” at
Lozovaya – a city in the Kharkov region and a major rail junction.

In order to make the strike look like it came from territory controlled by
the Donetsk People’s Republic or Russian forces, the rocket will come from
Staromikhaylovka, a village west of Donetsk held by the Kiev forces, the
general added.

Such actions demonstrate Ukraine’s “inhuman attitude towards the fate of
civilians” and “complete disregard for all norms of morality and
international humanitarian law,” said Mizintsev.

“We warn in advance the countries of the so-called ‘civilized West’ led by
the US that the Russian Federation has a body of operational evidence
about the upcoming terrible crimes of the Kiev regime,” the Russian
general added, along with a reminder that Tochka-U tactical missiles are
“used only by the Ukrainian armed forces.”

The same 19th missile brigade was accused by the Russian military on
Friday of targeting the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station in Kherson.
Two missiles were fired towards the dam on Friday morning, purportedly
with the aim of causing the Dnieper river to flood.

Both missiles were intercepted by Russian air defenses, but fragments of
one of them damaged several buildings in the village of Novaya Kakhovka,
injuring a woman and a child, the Russian military said.

Ukraine had accused Russia of the April 8 attack on the railway station in
Kramatorsk, which killed 50 civilians, including children. Russia
responded by pointing out that the missile that caused the carnage was a
Tochka-U with a serial number corresponding to Ukrainian stockpiles, and
even pinpointed the likely launch location. Western media coverage of the
attack significantly decreased after that.

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