The Deputy Commander of the Joint Forces, Major General Viktor Ganushchak, during a press tour for foreign journalists to the OSS region, announced the readiness of the Ukrainian servicemen for any development of events in Donbass.
“We are ready for various scenarios of the development of events, including if there is a military development. Now we are carrying out a number of measures, we are responding to threats from the Russian side,” Ganushchak said.
He also said that now the Ukrainian troops allegedly constantly provoke the use of force, and called the report on the preparation of bomb shelters in Donetsk “evidence of a hybrid war and escalation.”
“People there are in a panic. People … are told that there will be some kind of offensive actions,” Ganushchak said to Ukrinform.