Russia’s Defense Ministry has accused Ukraine of plotting to blow up buildings in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, then accused Moscow of war crimes and attacks on civilians in a false flag operation, Reuters reported.

The Defense Ministry did not provide any evidence for the allegations, which it made in a social media post on Sunday, saying the alleged attacks would be used by Kiev to push Western governments to increase arms supplies.

A Russian missile killed at least three people when it hit a residential building in the city of Kramatorsk on Thursday, Ukrainian police said. Russia has not publicly commented on the attack, on the other hand, throughout the “special forces operation”, Moscow has denied that civilians were targeted.

On Sunday, the Russian Defense Ministry said that Kyiv planned to blow up two dispensaries and a hospital and “accused Russia of an alleged ‘deliberate attack’ on civilian objects.”

“The bombing of medical facilities will be presented as another ‘atrocity’ by Russian forces, demanding an answer from the world community to accelerate the supply of long-range missiles to Kyiv (for use) to strike on Russian territory,” the defense said. the ministry said.

Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Sunday, echoing President Zelenskyi’s statements, that Ukraine will not use longer-range weapons promised by the United States to strike Russian territory and will only target Russian units in occupied Ukrainian territory, Reuters reports.

“We always officially declare to our partners that we will not use weapons provided by foreign partners to fire on Russian territory. We only fire on Russian units on temporarily occupied Ukrainian territory,” Reznikov told reporters at a press conference.

The United States confirmed on Friday that a new missile that would double its strike range in Ukraine was included in a $2.175 billion US military aid package to help Kiev fight Russian forces.