Russia’s armed forces intend to intensify their attacks on Ukraine’s arms industry, a Russian Defense Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
“As part of the task of demilitarizing Ukraine, the Russian armed forces will target Ukrainian arms companies,” he said, striking “high-precision strikes,” said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov.
He further added that the Russian military had discovered that “traces of a biological weapons program were destroyed by the Kiev regime”. He said Ukrainian forces had destroyed pathogens, including cholera and plague, on the first day of a Russian-led invasion on February 24. The Russian Defense Ministry released documents in Ukrainian, claiming that the program was funded by the United States.
Igor Konashenkov also said that Ukrainian fighters had flown to Russia, and warned that Moscow would consider any country allowing Ukrainian Air Force aircraft to use its airports was involved in the armed conflict.
“Russia has announced that it will bomb our companies in the defense industry. “Most of them are in cities where there are citizens,” said Ukrainian President Zelensky, according to the Kyiv independent website. He even stressed that this is a murder for which no Western politician reacts.
For his part, an adviser to the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said that Russian forces had gathered several troops near Kyiv and would try to occupy the capital in the coming days.
US Pentagon official estimated that Russia had deployed in Ukraine about 95% of the forces it had gathered at the border before the attack.
He also said that Moscow had fired 600 missiles since the beginning of the invasion, adding that the United States did not believe that an amphibious Russian attack was imminent in or near Odessa.
He added that Russian forces were trying to advance and cut off Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv and were facing “strong Ukrainian resistance”.
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