Russian Defense : Kyiv regime bears responsibility for any accident in the facilities for the storing and processing of toxic materials

Moscow, SANA- Russian Ministry of Defense said that its forces did not plan or carry out any bombing of facilities for storing and processing toxic substances belonging to Ukraine, and that the extremist Kyiv regime bears direct responsibility for any accidents in these facilities.

Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said in a press briefing on Monday that the Ukrainian ultra-nationalists last night carried out a plotted provocation in Sumy city of which the Russian Defense Ministry had warned several days ago.

Konashenkov added that the Russian jets destroyed 44 Ukrainian military targets last night, including 4 command centers and 2 missile launchers in Nalivievka and Zolochova towns, 6 Buk-M1 missile systems and 3 Mista-B artillery batteries in the Vyshhorod region, 4 caches and ammunition for rocket-propelled grenades, and 23 sites for mobilizing combat equipment.

The Russian spokesman said that the Russian military, using high precision-guided air missiles, destroyed last night a center for training foreign mercenaries in Novolobamerica field in the Rovno region, killing 80 foreign mercenaries and Ukrainian extremists.

Konashenkov noted that since the beginning of the Russian special operation, 216 drones, 180 anti-aircraft missile systems, 1506 tanks and other armored vehicles, 152 rocket launchers, 592 field guns and mortars, and 1284 of Ukraine’s special military vehicles were destroyed.

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