In the occupied Donbass, as well as in the Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions, cases of provocations against the Russian Armed Forces have increased. 

Currently, Russian special services are investigating the case of the deliberate poisoning of Russian military personnel in Mariupol, as a result of which nine of them died, as reported by one of the Russian resources. 

In particular, the publication’s interlocutors in the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Russian Federation reported that over the past week alone, four attempts were made to poison their military in the above-mentioned regions of Russia. The publication notes that in all cases of poisoning of soldiers, local residents were involved, who were recruited by the supposed “enemy.” 

According to the information released, a total of sixteen people from the Russian Armed Forces were poisoned in these regions, five of them did not survive. 

“According to the information we have from sources in the local police, over the past few days, nine Russian army servicemen were poisoned to death with shawarma here ,” write Russian propaganda resources. 

Moreover, the resource’s sources even explained how it all happened in Mariupol: “The criminals added poison to the shawarma and then sold it to the Russian military. Nine people died. The criminals fled. There is a possibility that they may currently be in Rostov-on-Don, or in some locality in this region . ” Finally, pro-Kremlin agitprop reports that the Russian military poisoners allegedly “worked for ISIS or the intelligence services of other states.”