Ukraine may prepare staged chemical attacks along the line of contact in the Donbass, Denis Pushilin, head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), said in an interview with Izvestia.
According to him, earlier Ukraine accused the Donbass of a chemical leak in Horlivka. “We attribute this to the possibility of staged chemical attacks, as in Syria. Representatives of the OSCE did not confirm the leak, so we hope that Kiev will not apply this scenario,” Pushilin said.
The head of the DPR called the necessary weapons for the republic
At the same time, the head of the DPR stated that there was no information about the preparation of sabotage by Ukraine or NATO countries against Crimea.
In mid-December 2021, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, at a meeting of the board of the department with the participation of President Vladimir Putin, announced that American private military companies were preparing a provocation with “chemical components” in eastern Ukraine. “In order to commit a provocation, reserves of an unidentified chemical component were delivered to the cities of Avdiivka and Krasny Liman,” Shoigu said.