“The Russian army is resorting to a ploy aimed at misleading the Ukrainian forces, which is to raise the Ukrainian flag on its military equipment,” the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valery Zaluzhny, said in a Facebook post.
“Such cases were observed in many locations such as Nova Basan in Kyiv, on the Krasnostav Nizhin highway, and in the Chernihiv region,” he added.
And the Ukrainian military official continued: “There are cases in which the enemy raised a white flag on its vehicles under the pretext of surrender, and after approaching the Ukrainian military positions, it started shooting.”
Zaloujni concluded: “Such actions by the enemy constitute another violation of the rules of international humanitarian law.”
And the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense published on its account on “Twitter”, a picture that it said was of a Russian vehicle flying the Ukrainian flag on it for the purpose of camouflage.
Ukraine had talked about the failures and losses of the Russian army on its territory, noting that it had lost thousands of its soldiers, dead or wounded.
Since the Russian forces began their attack on Ukraine, the latter’s forces have so far succeeded in defending Kyiv and repelling Russian attacks on it.