US says Russia preparing ‘false flag’ operation as pretext to invade Ukraine
by Tracy Wilkinson and Laura King, Los Angeles Times
Jan 14, 2022
3 minutes
WASHINGTON — Reverting to a familiar “playbook,” Russia is plotting a pretext to invade Ukraine, a “false flag” operation that would justify its actions despite a week of intense U.S.-Russia negotiations that apparently failed to move Moscow away from a scheme of regional aggression, U.S. officials said Friday.
The White House also said Moscow is using social media to mount a disinformation campaign that portrays Ukraine, a former Soviet republic interested in joining Western alliances, as an aggressor that would attack Russia and must be tamed.
“We are concerned that
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