Washington: Pentagon said Thursday has proof of plans by Moscow to film a fake Ukrainian attack on Russia to justify a real attack on neighboring pro-west.
“We have information that Russia tends to want to make a pretext for invasion,” said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.
He told reporters that Washington believed that the Russian government planned to carry out attacks by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces “against the Russian Sovereign region, or against Russian-speaking people.”
The latter can refer to a large Russian-language population in Ukraine.
“As part of this fake attack, we believe that Russia will produce very graphical propaganda videos, which will include corpses and actors who will describe mourners and images from the location that are destroyed,” he said.
It could allow Moscow, which has collected more than 100,000 soldiers and heavy offensive arms on the Ukrainian border, with reasons to attack.
– Questions about evidence –
Both the spokesman for the Department of Kirby and the state of Ned, who also commented on the alleged plan, offering evidence to support claims.
Kirby said the part of the plan was to make Ukrainian military equipment used in it seemed to be supplied by the West, he said, further justify Russian retaliation against Ukraine.
“We have seen this kind of activity by Russia in the past and we believe it’s important when we see it like this so we can call it,” Kirby said.
“I would only say that our experience is that very few of these nature is not approved at the highest level of the Russian government,” Kirby said about the plan.
The price said the plan suspected was “one of the number of options developed by the Russian government as a false pretext to start and potentially justify military aggression against Ukraine.”
He said the United States did not know whether Moscow decided to undergo a plan.
“Russia has hinted it was willing to continue diplomatic talks as a means of reducing, but this action shows the opposite,” said the price.
Pressed on whether there was proof of such a plan, the price said it came from US intelligence, but did not offer details anymore.
“I will not spell what is in our ownership, but I will hand it over to your assessment,” he told reporters.
British Foreign Secretary Frame Liz called US claims for the operation of Moscow fake flags “clearly and surprisingly evidence of Russian fraudulent aggression and activities that are not stunned to disrupt Ukraine.”
“The only way ahead is for Russia to reduce, stop and commit to diplomatic pathways,” he said in a statement tweeted.
