Russia has evidence to prove that there was a "meeting" between commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and their Western counterparts in Sumy, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
"We have facts about who was at the facility that was struck in Sumy. There was yet another 'gathering' of Ukrainian military commanders with their Western colleagues, who were posing either as mercenaries or acted under some other guise — I don’t know," said Lavrov.
According to him, military personnel from NATO countries also took part in the meeting with the AFU command in Sumy. Lavrov added that those individuals were involved in coordinating the launch of long-range missiles.
On April 13, the Russian Armed Forces struck the center of the town of Sumy where a meeting of the command staff of the Seversk operational-tactical group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was taking place. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, tow Iskander-M operational-tactical missiles were used for the attack.