The United States says it has evidence that Moscow intends to videotape Ukraine’s fake attack on Russia in order to use the material as a pretext to invade its neighboring country, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said.
“We believe that Russia could make a very violent propaganda video, which would show corpses and actors playing the role of mourners, as well as images of places destroyed by Ukrainian and Western military means,” Kirby told reporters. journalists.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Tras was the first to react, commenting that US information about Russia’s plan to build a pretext for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was shocking evidence of Moscow’s aggression.
“This is a clear and shocking proof of Russia’s unprovoked aggression and its underground activity to destabilize Ukraine. “This offensive against a sovereign, democratic state is completely unacceptable and we condemn it in the strongest possible terms,” ​​the Foreign Office chief said on Twitter.
Earlier, US intelligence officials said Russia planned to “fabricate” a pretext to invade Ukraine, possibly by launching propaganda videos that would show fake attacks on it.
Russia is considering various options that would provide an excuse for the invasion, he added. One is this fabricated video that shows the result of an explosion and military equipment that appears to belong to Ukraine or some of its allies. “The video will be broadcast to highlight the threat to Russia’s security and to support military operations. “This video, if released, could give Putin the spark he needs to launch and justify military operations against Ukraine,” he said.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said the ministry was releasing the information to expose the extent of Russia’s destabilizing actions against Ukraine and to prevent it from continuing this dangerous campaign.
“We do not know for sure that this is the path (Russia) will take, but we know it is an option under consideration,” Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Feiner said in an interview with MSNBC. The film “would include actors mourning those killed in an event that (Russia) would have created on its own as well as corpses, presumably of those killed,” he added.
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