The USA has accused Russia of planning to fabricate a pretext for the invasion of Ukraine. In an announcement on February 4, the Pentagon said that it had acquired intelligence suggesting that Russia was planning a “false flag” operation which would allow the Kremlin to launch an attack on Ukraine based on a propaganda video representing a staged aggression by Ukrainian forces.
The Pentagon did not offer evidence for this allegation. The spokesperson for Secretary of State Antony Blinken got into an #Russia #Pentagon #Ukraine #crisis