Russian intelligence has been working to create a fake video of an attack on Russia’s own forces to justify invading Ukraine, U.S. intelligence officers said
, U.S. intelligence officers said Thursday. The U.S. hopes to foil the plan by making it public.
With the video of a staged military maneuver, actors playing dead, and authentic Ukrainian military equipment, Russia planned to accuse Ukraine of attempting genocide against Russian-speaking people as a pretext for its own invasion or intervention on behalf of Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine, who have been fighting the Ukrainian government for more than eight years.
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