The Ukraine crisis entered a new state of intensity over the weekend, as the U.S. warned that Russian troop movements — now numbering well over 100,000 along the Ukrainian border.
Biden has vowed that the U.S. would not send troops to Ukraine, which is not a member of NATO, saying such an effort would risk “world war.” But the U.S. has promised a punishing round of sanctions and a unified Western response to a Russian invasion.
“The world should be prepared for Russia staging a pretext and then launching a potential military action,” Sullivan said Sunday., a respected volunteer Ukrainian intelligence group, has spotted peculiar activity last week by Russian military near the Crimea Bridge, the almost 12-mile bridge constructed by Russia across the Kerch Strait, which connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, which is uneasily shared by Russia and Ukraine.
Klymenko thinks such an act is in the realm of possibility. “We also think that a Russian staging [of a false flag event] is possible – either an attack on a Russian ship in the Sea of Azov or a mock sabotage act against the Kerch [Crimean] Bridge, which is Mr. Putin’s favorite toy,” he told Yahoo News.
Foggo, the retired U.S. admiral, recalled that incident earlier this month during an Atlantic Council webinar, calling it “outrageous” and “a violation of the Geneva Conventions.” Foggo added: “We didn’t do enough about it.” Samus added that Ukraine doesn’t have much of a navy and “NATO doesn't have any strategy in Black Sea.”
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