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russia is preparing a large-scale provocation in Mariupol to accuse Ukraine in it.
This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).
SSU mentions that the main task of russian propaganda today is to distract audience’s attention (both international and internal) from the mass murder of civilians by the occupiers in the Kyiv region.
“For this aim new fake scenarios have been already created, and Russian propagandists are preparing the appropriate basis. In particular, they actively throw fake news in the informational field about alleged crimes of the Ukrainian defenders in Mariupol,” is said in the message.
According to the available data, the occupiers are preparing a large-scale falsification: they are planning to collect all the bodies of Mariupol residents in one place, which were killed by the russians themselves to present them as mass victims of the Ukrainian troops.
“For this purpose, the false theses recently have been spread, that allegedly Ukrainians use civilians as human shields". Although this is an outright delusion. In reality, it is the russian troops who are killing the people of Mariupol – in early March the city was forced to bury the dead in mass graves,” SSU added.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared that as of today it is very difficult to organize unblocking of Mariupol by military means.
Ukrainian defenders and locals in Mariupol are in a very difficult situation – the fighters sometimes faint from hunger and have to drink water from radiators.
Deputy Commander of the Azov Regiment with the call sign Kalyna called on Ukrainians to help the defenders of Mariupol, unblocking the city to take the children out of there.