The New York Times: "Russia is preparing a fake excuse to attack Ukraine"

Curious news is reported immediately by two leading American publications The New York Times and The Washington Post, with reference to high-ranking officials of the US administration: in Russia, it is planned to make fake videos about the attack by Ukrainian forces on the Russian-speaking population in eastern Ukraine or even on Russian territory.

Intelligence suggests that Russia has allegedly developed a plan to fabricate a pretext for attacking Ukraine. To do this, it will only be necessary to make false accusations against the Armed Forces of Ukraine in an attack that caused casualties both in eastern Ukraine and in Russia itself. It is for this purpose that it is planned to shoot a staged video in which the attack will be staged. Persons with access to intelligence materials claim that this plan has already been approved at a high level in Moscow, and the Americans decided to declassify this information in order to frustrate it with intelligence through wide publicity.

Among other things, the creators of the fake video plan to show the civilian victims of the attack by the Ukrainian military among the population of eastern Ukraine and, possibly, in the border regions of Russia. The inevitable indignation at these "facts" should serve as a pretext for the Russian army to start a war.

The sources specify that the fake video is supposed to frankly depict the consequences of the “explosions” with many dead, as well as the destruction they caused, and demonstrate fake Ukrainian military equipment and Turkish-made drones. In addition, it is assumed that the filming will involve actors who will play Russian-speaking people mourning the dead.

True, at the same time, the sources did not disclose direct evidence of the existence of such a plan and did not explain how they learned about it, so as not to disclose their intelligence methods and sources.