'Corpse propaganda video': US and UK say Russia is preparing pretext to attack Ukraine

According to the US, Russia may release a fabricated video of the attack on people and then use it as a pretext to attack Ukraine. Read more about this publication with the BBC.

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It has been reported that Russia is considering staging a fake attack with multiple casualties that would be "recorded" on video and later used to attack Ukraine.

In response, Russia says it has no plans to conduct any operations under a false flag.

The United States and NATO have long expressed concern about the accumulation of Russian troops near Ukraine. There are more than 100 thousand of them.

Russia denies invasion plans and says military and equipment near the border have gathered for exercises.

What they say in the USA

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said such a video could be "a very naturalistic propaganda video, with corpses and artists playing shocked people, as well as footage of destroyed objects."

According to Kirby, such a "rigged attack" could either "take place" on Russian territory or be directed against Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine.

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It is assumed that the video, among other things, may show military equipment - Ukrainian or the one that Ukraine received from other countries in the form of assistance.

“The purpose of such a video is to highlight the threat to Russia’s security and justify military operations,” an anonymous source in Washington told reporters.

In the US, they said they decided to make this information public in order to avoid such a development of events.

“We are not exactly sure that Russia will go down this path, but we know that this is one of the possibilities,” said Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Finer.

UK confirms

The UK confirms the accuracy of information about Russia's intention to create a pretext for the invasion of Ukraine.

"This is clear and shocking evidence of Russia's gratuitous aggression and clandestine activities to destabilize Ukraine," Foreign Office chief Liz Truss said in a statement. “Such an aggressive intent towards a sovereign, democratic country is absolutely unacceptable and we condemn it in the strongest terms.”

Liz Truss promised that Britain and its allies would continue to expose the tricks and propaganda, would call a spade a spade. She stressed that the only way for Russia is de-escalation and diplomacy.

Russia's answer

The official representative of the presidential administration Dmitry Peskov commented on the US statements as follows: “This is not the first such statement. It used to sound similar too. But nothing happened."

Meanwhile, Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said that Moscow is not planning any false flag operations to invade Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called US statements about Russia preparing video provocations to attack Ukraine as nonsense.

“The nonsense of such inventions, and there are more and more of them every day, is obvious to any more or less experienced political scientist,” Lavrov noted.

How did they react in Ukraine

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the US had warned Ukraine that Russia was preparing a fake video as a pretext for the attack, and that the information would be made public.

According to him, the United States has shared information, and now Ukraine is waiting for more details, the minister said during his morning briefing on Friday, February 4.

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“In principle, what was made public does not surprise us. Since 2014, we have seen many insidious actions of Russia. We saw that they stop at nothing when they try to falsify something and blame Ukraine for something,” Kuleba said.

Not the first statement

BBC correspondent Paul Adams says this is not the first time US and British officials have spoken in recent weeks about Russia's intention to create a pretext for invading Ukraine. In all these cases, it was a highly unusual release of top secret information, but the goal was always clear: to warn Russia that its plans are being carefully watched.

In mid-January, Kirby reported that Moscow had prepared a group of saboteurs to carry out an armed provocation in the east of the country, thus creating a pretext for an invasion. The Russian Embassy in Washington called it stuffing and informational pressure.

In turn, British intelligence published information about Russia's intention to bring pro-Russian politicians to power in Ukraine and establish a puppet regime in Kiev.

But four of the five politicians listed by London with whom the British Foreign Office says the Russian intelligence services have ties now live in Moscow, making their ties to Russia more common knowledge than intelligence.

The West believes that Russia may soon launch a military operation against Ukraine. According to NATO estimates, more than 100 Russian troops are concentrated on the borders with Ukraine. The Pentagon believes that nothing like this has happened since the Cold War.

Moscow, on the other hand, assures that it does not plan an invasion of Ukraine, and the movement of Russian troops on Russian territory should not bother anyone. Russia demands from NATO to provide security guarantees and close the doors of the alliance for Ukraine.

NATO insists that the doors of the Alliance remain open for Ukraine.

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