Explosions on the way to the Saur-Mogila memorial complex, announced on May 8 in the ORDO, are a planned provocation on the eve of the day of victory, the Defense Ministry's spokesman Andrei Lysenko said..

In the commentary "Radyo Liberty" Lysenko drew attention to the fact that the explosion occurred just before the arrival of Russian and local journalists.

"The explosion thundered, according to operational data, for some time before the arrival, in fact, of journalists. They just showed him some kind of funnel fresh ... that supposedly, it could be Ukrainian DRG. But there is not one witness, not one testimony to this, so we consider this a bright provocation on the eve of such a holiday, "he said..

According to the representative of the Ministry of Defense, this incident is a "multiyear" initiated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who at an official level accused Ukraine of non-compliance with the Minsk accords.

Thus, in an interview with the Russian TV channel Mir, Lavrov said that "Ukrainian security forces regularly arrange armed provocations on the line of the clash in the Donbass, so as not to fulfill the political part of the Minsk agreements".