The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has refuted russia’s claims that a bus carrying a Belarusian youth football team in the Bryansk Oblast was allegedly struck by a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone. This is stated in a report from the General Staff, the Ukrainian News agency informs.
"Statements by representatives of the Russian Federation regarding the alleged strike by a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone on a bus carrying a youth soccer team in the Bryansk Oblast are untrue. We emphasize that during the specified period, the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not use unmanned aerial vehicles to strike targets in the Bryansk Oblast," the statement reads.
The General Staff regards such reports as yet another information provocation by the kremlin.
“Unable to achieve its stated objectives on the battlefield and suffering significant losses, the Russian Federation is increasingly resorting to information manipulation and fabricating accusations against Ukraine,” the General Staff notes.
The statement emphasizes that it is russia that systematically violates the norms of international humanitarian law by striking Ukrainian cities, residential neighborhoods, hospitals, schools, and other civilian targets.
The General Staff emphasizes that the Armed Forces of Ukraine strike only legitimate military targets and do not conduct combat operations against the civilian population.
In turn, Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation, noted that this enemy operation is intended to influence public opinion in Belarus.
“The Russians saw that Belarusians do not want to support Russia’s aggressive rhetoric regarding Ukraine, so they fabricated a ‘terrorist attack on a bus carrying Belarusian children in the Bryansk Oblast,’ hoping that this information provocation would incite the Belarusian population to support aggressive actions against Ukraine. The provocation itself is pathetic and bears all the hallmarks of a coordinated operation without any factual evidence. Typical of Russian propagandists,” emphasized the head of the CCD.
This was the response of the General Staff and the Center for Countering Disinformation to reports from russian officials and propaganda outlets claiming that Ukraine had allegedly attacked a bus carrying a children’s soccer team in the Bryansk Oblast with a drone.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, the Center for Countering Disinformation had previously stated that dictator vladimir putin is fabricating yet another “information alibi” to justify russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine.
Earlier, Aleksandr Lukashenko also stated that he had no intention of going to war against Ukraine, but called on others “not to provoke” Belarus.
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