Russia has deployed operatives to undertake a “false flag” operation in eastern Ukraine that would fabricate a pretext for invading the country, the White House said, warning it saw signs an invasion could come in a matter of weeks.
westward from their bases in its Far East, according to U.S. officials and social-media reports.
A Ukrainian Military Forces serviceman on the front line with Russia-backed separatists in the Donetsk region on Tuesday.In Washington on Friday, Ms. Psaki said Russian officials and “influence actors” had sought to spread misinformation about Ukraine to encourage domestic Russian support for military action there.
“We’ve seen this before, we saw this before leading up to 2014…including sabotage activities and information operations,” she said. “And the Russian military plans to begin these activities several weeks before a military invasion, which could begin between mid-January and mid-February.”
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