Russia is planning a self-made play as early as next week to create an excuse for an invasion of Ukraine, the Washington Post reported, citing Western intelligence officials.
The Washington Post reported that Western intelligence officials have captured the situation that Russia will carry out a ‘fake flag’ operation that uses the situation to propaganda and propaganda after deceiving the real attacker by disguising the attackers’ nationalities.
Such intelligence was discussed at an emergency meeting in the White House situation room on the 10th and led to an alert calling for the evacuation of Americans in Ukraine, sources said.
The newspaper did not specifically report on the nature of the operation or the exact timing of its execution.
Officials agreed that the intelligence showed that Russia was in the final stages of preparing for an invasion.
The fake flag operation was even mentioned by White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
Sullivan said he was confident Russia was considering a fake flag operation to justify an invasion of Ukraine.
He claimed that he now has enough troops to carry out military operations against Ukraine and that the attack could begin now.
Information that Russia is moving systematically for the cause of invading Ukraine is coming from Western intelligence agencies one after another.
Earlier this month, intelligence was revealed that Russia was planning to create and distribute fake videos of Ukrainian forces attacking Russia.
Last month, there was also information that Russia was setting up a self-made play by deploying agents to carry out a camouflage operation in eastern Ukraine.
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