Such messages are distributed in the Russian and Belarusian mass media. It is not true.

The information was denied by the Public Relations Service of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. "Such publications are completely untrue, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to protect our state from the invaders, strictly observing the norms of international law," the press service reports. The department notes that Russia spreads such messages intending to drag Belarus into a war on the territory of Ukraine and conceal war crimes committed and still being committed by the Russian occupiers on the territory of Ukraine.