Aug. 13—The Russian Ministry of Defense issued an alert that Kyiv is preparing a provocation to disrupt the Russian American summit negotiations scheduled for Aug. 15.

“For this purpose, a group of foreign media journalists were brought by SBU [Ukrainian Security Service] vehicles to the city of Chuguyev in the Kharkov Region on Monday, Aug. 11, under the cover of ‘preparing a series of reports about the residents of a city in the frontline zone,’” says the statement.

“Immediately before the summit on Friday, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have planned a provocative strike using UAVs and missiles against one of the densely populated residential areas or a hospital, with a large number of civilian casualties, which are to be immediately ‘documented’ by the Western journalists who were brought in.”

The Ministry of Defense concludes that the strike will be blamed on Russia, to create a negative media environment and the “conditions for the disruption of Russian-American cooperation on resolving the conflict in Ukraine” at the scheduled Friday summit between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.