Head of the National Center for Russian Defense Management, Colonel General Michael Mizincev said at the briefing that they were Ukrainian neo-Nazis in the settlements of Seversk and Serebryanka shot at houses and looted while driving armored vehicles with the “Z” sign and all in front of the cameras of Ukrainian and foreign journalists.
“As part of the provocation, members of extremist battalions disguised in Russian uniforms shot at private houses in vehicles marked ‘Z’, stole valuables and cars, and in case citizens offered them even the slightest resistance, they were exposed to violence.”, he said Mizincev.
Those staged scenes were filmed by Ukrainian and foreign journalists, and the footage will be published after Russian forces liberate those places with the aim of discrediting them.