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Jan 16 2022
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Russia-Ukraine: US warns of 'false-flag' operation
Russia is plotting to stage acts of provocation to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, a US official has said.
A Pentagon spokesman said Russian operatives were planning a "false-flag" operation, to allow Moscow to accuse Ukraine of preparing an attack. Russia has dismissed the claims.
It comes after a week of US-Russian talks aimed at defusing tensions.
Ukraine on Friday
BBC NewsJan 16 2022
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US warns of Russia plotting ‘false flag’ operation to provoke Ukraine invasion
The US has intelligence suggesting Russian operatives have been deployed to conduct a “false flag” attack in eastern Ukraine that will act as a signal for Moscow to invade its western neighbor, the White House said Friday.
Press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the operatives had been tapped to carry out “sabotage attacks” against Russian proxies in the region and added that
New York Post (News)Jan 16 2022
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U.S. intel suggests Russia is preparing a 'false-flag' operation as pretext for Ukraine invasion
The U.S. has information that the Russian government is planning a "false-flag" operation to rationalize an invasion of Ukraine, a government official said Friday.
"We have information that indicates Russia has already pre-positioned a group of operatives to conduct a false-flag operation in eastern Ukraine. The operatives are trained in urban warfare and in using explosives to carry
NBC News (Online)May 14 2024
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A brief timeline of Russia's war in Ukraine
Russia had a plan to conquer Ukraine in about a week. A year after it tried to execute that plan, Russia's army was in a fierce, bloody battle for a small, strategically insignificant city it had already reduced to smoldering rubble. Six months later, Moscow was on the defensive, engaged in World War I–style trench warfare, with casualties to match. Six months after that Russia started
The Week - NewsFeb 17 2022
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Ukraine shelling: Biden says 'reason to believe' Russia conducting false flag operation before invasion
President Biden on Thursday said the U.S. has reason to believe that Russia is "engaged in a false flag operation," and said he believes that an invasion into Ukraine "will happen in the next several days."
Tensions have spiked along the line that separates Ukrainian forces from Russia-backed separatists in the country’s east, with the parties accusing each other of intensive shelling
Fox News (Online News)Mar 11 2024
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Pope provokes outrage by saying Ukraine should ‘raise white flag’ and end war with Russia
The Ukrainian government has responded angrily and vowed never to surrender after Pope Francis said the country should have “the courage to raise the white flag” and negotiate an end to the war with Russia.
“Our flag is a yellow and blue one. This is the flag by which we live, die, and prevail. We shall never raise any other flags,” Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said on
The GuardianMay 09 2024
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Russia makes front line breakthrough in Ukraine
Russian troops have made a breakthrough in a key city in the Donetsk region according to Ukraine's armed forces. Lieutenant Colonel Nazar Voloshyn, spokesman for Ukraine's Khortytsia operational-strategic group of troops fighting on the front line said Russian assault groups had advanced into Krasnohorivka, west of the city of Donetsk, and entered the site of an industrial plant. "Thanks to
NewsweekMay 14 2024
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Russia must pay for Ukraine rebuild, Blinken says
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin must pay to rebuild what he has destroyed in Ukraine.
Speaking in Kyiv, Mr Blinken said Washington has the power to seize Russian assets in the US and will use them to help rebuild Ukraine.
He also said that Ukraine is getting "closer to Nato".
Earlier, the top US diplomat told Ukraine
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