Summary: Russian MoD warns of multiple mortar attacks against Orthodox churches in Ukraine on Easter night.


Russian MoD warns of multiple mortar attacks against Orthodox churches to take place on Easter night and to be blamed on Russian forces.

 

Yesterday afternoon, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a short statement in which it claimed that it had information that preparations were being completed for multiple mortar attacks to take place on the night of Easter according to the Orthodox calendar, i.e. on 23-24 April 2022. These attacks would be carried out by mobile units using ‘vans and cross-country vehicles equipped with mortars’ in the ‘Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkov regions’ and would target Orthodox churches as well as other churches, which would be shelled to cause ‘numerous victims’. The attacks would be supported by several countries of the West, with responsibility for the massacres however to be laid on ‘Russian servicemen’. Western news agency journalists would be put to contribution through ‘the filming of the alleged “Russian atrocities” and the immediate’ dissemination of these fake stories through their global news networks.

Given what has already happened in this conflict in terms of massacres perpetrated by extremists on the Ukrainian side but blamed on the Russian armed forces by the media of most countries, I believe that the following warning is most likely genuine – as opposed to being mere fabrication on the part of the Russian Ministry of Defence for war purposes.

The more so as I recall headlines similar to the following one in the context of the war in Syria in both 2017 and 2018: ‘Filming of staged chemical attack in Syria’s Idlib begins, Russian top brass says’, 11 September 2018. Even though I cannot recall whether or not the latter warning had managed to deter the perpetrators from carrying out their planned deed in Syria in 2018.

However, in the hope that this will be the case this time (i.e., that by seeing their plan being exposed, the would-be perpetrators will be deterred from carrying it out), I am reposting the communiqué of Russian Ministry of Defence on my blog as I am convinced that any course of action that may save lives is worth pursuing.

18.04.2022 (14:45)

Emergency Statement of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine

According to available information, the Kiev regime, with the support of several Western countries, is completing preparations for monstrous provocations with numerous victims in Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sumy and Kharkov regions. For this purpose, more than 70 mobile groups were formed from nationalist battalions on vans and cross-country vehicles equipped with mortars (so-called “traveling mortars”) with the task of shelling Orthodox churches and churches on Easter Night (April 23-24, 2022) to accuse Russian servicemen of massacring civilians on this sacred holiday for believers..

A large number of Western news agency journalists are to be involved in the filming of the alleged “Russian atrocities” and the immediate spreading of the fakes by Kiev.

The Ukrainian authorities’ prepared provocations demonstrate their complete indifference to the fate of their own citizens.

We call on the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organizations to immediately influence the Kiev regime to prevent this inhumane provocation that ignores all norms of morality and international humanitarian law.

We warn the countries of the so-called “civilised West” led by the US in advance that the Russian Federation has an evidence base of another terrible crime being prepared by the Kiev regime.

This emergency statement should be published immediately and reported to the United Nations, the OSCE, the International Committee of the Red Cross and other international organisations through all available information resources.
Directorate of Media service and Information

https://eng.mil.ru/en/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12417864@egNews
https://archive.ph/2Z2kW
 

See also
‘3. The Kiev regime plans to shell churches on Orthodox Easter’
https://mgimo.ru/about/news/experts/kiev-plans-a-nmassive-provocation-during-easter/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220419090614/https://mgimo.ru/about/news/experts/kiev-plans-a-nmassive-provocation-during-easter/.


Other entries on this blog about ‘false flags’ in the context of the war in Ukraine:
https://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/geopolitics/ukraine/psychological-operations/false-flags/soon-a-false-flag-in-ukraine_question-mark.html

https://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/geopolitics/ukraine/psychological-operations/false-flags/the-bucha-massacre-contrarian-perspectives.html

https://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/geopolitics/ukraine/psychological-operations/false-flags/more-on-bucha.html


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