A nuclear reactor in Kharkiv is the target of a planned false flag attack by the Ukrainian security services (SBU) and the Azov Battalion, the Russian Defense Ministry and official Russian state media outlets alleged.
Alert by @mod_russia: #SBU & #Azov battalion militants have rigged a reactor at the #Kharkov Institute of Physics & Technology to stage a provocation & accuse the Russian Armed Forces of launching a missile attack on the experimental nuclear facility
— MFA Russia (@mfa_russia) March 6, 2022
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"The SBU, together with the militants of the Azov Battalion, are preparing a provocation with possible radioactive contamination of the area near the city of Kharkiv. Nationalists mined a reactor at an experimental nuclear facility located at the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology," the report said, according to TASS and Interfax. "The SBU and the militants of the Azov Battalion" plan to blow up the reactor and accuse the Russian Armed Forces of allegedly launching a missile attack on an experimental nuclear facility."
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