Russian security services launch chemical weapons provocation in Zaporizhzhia region – intel

The relevant statement was made by the Main Intelligence Directorate at the Ukrainian Defense Ministry on Facebook, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“In order to disrupt the counteroffensive actions of Ukraine’s Defense and Security Forces, on May 27, 2023, Russian occupiers started to carry out a chemical weapons provocation in the Zaporizhzhia region’s temporarily occupied areas,” the report states.

According to the Ukrainian intelligence, Russian soldiers can be the real victims of the enemy provocation. The aggressor state expects to use the traces of chemical weapons damage on their bodies as fake evidence to accuse Ukraine.

The Main Intelligence Directorate emphasized that Ukraine’s Defense and Security Forces use only conventional arms during military actions against Russian troops, and ‘another staged performance by the Muscovite security services’ cannot influence the further course of events on the front.