Could Russia use a 'false flag' operation to justify invading Ukraine? #shorts
1,875The leaders of the United States and the United Kingdom have both accused Russia of staging "false flag" operations to discredit the Ukrainians and create a pretext for invading Ukraine. Ukrainian forces and pro-Moscow rebels clashed in the Donbas separatist region on Thursday, but both sides gave conflicting accounts of the conflict. While Ukraine said separatists had shelled its forces — but they did not fire back — and some of those shells hit civilian houses and a kindergarten in Stanytsia Luhanska, wounding two teachers and cutting power to half of the town.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergey Vershinin, accused Kyiv of repeated attacks on Russian separatist-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine, causing "thousands of victims".
False flag operation is a form of propaganda or disinformation that has been used for centuries as a pretext for war. The US has been saying for some weeks that the Kremlin will attempt to stage some kind of attack as a pretext for a Ukraine invasion.
In the end, "It could be a fabricated, so-called 'terrorist bombing' inside Russia, the invented discovery of a mass grave, a staged drone strike against civilians, or a fake — even a real — attack using chemical weapons.
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