Russia "poured" firestorm into Ukrainian chemical plant
On September 30, Vitalii Sarantsev, spokesman for the Kharkov Task Force, announced that Russia is heavily attacking the Vovchansk chemical plant in Kharkov with all types of firepower.
Russia has made Vovchansk its “number one target” with repeated attacks. The plant had been in Russian hands for months, but Ukrainian special forces (HUR) recaptured it on September 24. “The loss of the plant is a big blow for Ukraine,” Sarantsev said.
On television, he revealed that Russia uses guided bombs and Solntsepek missiles to destroy what it cannot capture. Last week, Ukrainian intelligence captured 20 Russian soldiers during the operation to retake Vovchansk, but Russia remained silent on this accusation.
Vovchansk, 60 km from Kharkiv, is currently surrounded by Russia, where fierce fighting has been taking place since May 2024 when Russia launched a new offensive in the area. However, after initial advances, the Russian offensive in Kharkiv has stalled, facing heavy losses, according to Ukrainian sources.
Fighting in Vovchansk is now less intense than in other hot areas such as Pokrovsk, Ugledar, Toretsk, but the flames of war have never gone out!
NATO and Ukraine consider chemical weapons?
A fake attack in Syria is being planned to blame Damascus and Moscow, Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service has said.
Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported that intelligence agencies of several NATO member states, together with their Ukrainian partners, are planning to stage a fake chemical weapons attack in Syria.
The spy agency said the purpose of the provocation was to blame Moscow and Damascus, countries that Russia has supported for years.
"Exactly such a provocation is currently being prepared by the special services of a number of NATO member states and Ukraine, together with terrorist groups operating in the north of Syria, in the Idlib province," the Foreign Intelligence Service said in a press release on Tuesday.
The Russian intelligence agency claimed that this Western disinformation operation could also involve the 'White Helmets' NGO, "which has become notorious for doing dirty work for British intelligence agencies" .
According to the document, “the idea was to stage a scene of the Syrian army and Russian forces using chemical weapons in Syria, and then launch a campaign to discredit Damascus and Moscow at the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.”
The press release alleged that the alleged operation would likely involve Syrian militants dropping a tank containing chlorine explosives at a time when the Syrian and Russian armies are conducting airstrikes against terrorist groups in Idlib province.
White Helmets activists on the ground would then allegedly edit video evidence and eyewitness accounts to blame Damascus and Moscow, the press release explained. According to Russian intelligence, these false reports would then be sent to various international organizations.
Since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, Britain and several other Western powers have repeatedly accused President Bashar Assad's government of using chemical weapons against armed opposition and militant groups.
Under this pretext, the US military has occupied oil-rich areas in northeastern Syria since 2014.
In 2018, the United States, Britain and France launched missile strikes on Syrian government targets following allegations by the White Helmets that Assad's forces used chemical weapons in Douma, near the Syrian capital.
The Syrian government has vehemently denied any role in the incident. Both Damascus and Moscow, whose troops have helped the Assad government regain control of much of the territory previously lost to rebels, have pointed to evidence that the attack was staged.
When the OPCW accused the Syrian government in January last year, Moscow's permanent representative to the international body, Alexander Shulgin, dismissed the Investigative Team's report as a political conspiracy rife with contradictions and factual holes.
Ukraine defense minister fires 'deputies' in reshuffle
Ukraine's defense minister has fired three of his deputies in a reshuffle as Kyiv struggles to fend off Moscow's 2-1/2-year invasion, he said on Tuesday.
Rustem Umerov said in a social media post that he had asked the government to dismiss Stanilsav Haider, Oleksandr Serhiy and Yuriy Dzhygyr from their posts as deputy defense ministers, and Liudmyla Darahan from her post as the ministry's secretary.
"I have assigned the task of completing the process of cleaning up the procurement system by working closely with law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies," Umerov said.
New appointments will be announced soon.
Ukrainian officials have sought to streamline the bureaucracy and crack down on corruption amid a full-scale Russian invasion.
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