25 Feb 2022 16:26

Grad rocket launchers deployed in Kyiv to strike Hostomel airfield where Russian troops are - Russian Defense Ministry

MOSCOW. Feb 25 (Interfax) - Grad rocket launchers have been deployed in Kyiv to strike the Hostomel airfield where Russian troops have amassed, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.

"Intelligence says that Grad rocket launchers have been deployed on Shevchenko Square in Kyiv to strike the Hostomel airfield area," Konashenkov said.

"Advisors from the Pentagon and the CIA have taught the Ukrainian military command how to position rocket launchers in residential areas to provoke return fire at the local population," he said.

"The use of residential areas by the Kyiv regime as camouflage for firing positions of their artillery systems is a war crime. We know this style very well. This tactics is used by CIA-steered terrorists in the Middle East and other countries," Konashenkov said.