"It has been established that in the period from March 29 to April 4, the command of the 1st (Donetsk) and 2nd (Luhansk) Army Corps of the Russian armed forces, under the guise of training exercises, is planning large-scale provocative shelling of ATO forces to cause the return fire," the report says.
The intelligence says that the purpose of this move is to further accuse the Ukrainian side of violating the Minsk agreements and thus obtain grounds for the offensive.
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