Ukraine: Pentagon, Moscow prepares attack “under pretext”
The spokesperson for the Pentagon, John Kirbyconfirmed the press rumors that fly “he is planning a false attack on Russian sovereignty to be attributed to the Ukrainian army”. “We believe the Russia will produce fake propaganda videos, which will include corpses, mourning actors, images of destroyed places and Ukrainian weapons supplied by the West, “Kirby told a press conference.
Ukraine, New York Times: in a video the evidence of the Russian plan as a pretext for invasion
The United States have the intelligence evidence on the Russian plan, denounced in recent days, to create a pretext for the invasion of Russia: it would be a fake video that would show an attack by the military forces of Kiev against the Russian territory or against the Russian-speaking population in the east ofUkraine. The New York Timesciting US administration sources, according to which the video, which should be made public, was used by Moscow to indict Kiev to carry out a genocide against the Russian-speaking population. And to justify an internal in the region or to give the pretext to the separatist leaders of the Donbass to ask for Russian intervention. The sources explained that they will not release any direct evidence of the Russian plan or how they learned about it so as not to compromise their sources, but argue that “Russian intelligence is fully involved in this effort”.
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