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Bizarre video on the Ukraine crisis: British warn of "Russia's script"

2022-02-20T05:32:59.255Z


Bizarre video on the Ukraine crisis: British warn of "Russia's script" Created: 02/20/2022, 06:20 By: Astrid Theil A video released by the British Foreign Office warns of pretexts that Russia could create for an invasion of Ukraine. (Archive photo) © dpa/PA Media/Uk Parliament/Jessica Taylor The British Foreign Office is using unusual means to intervene and warn in the escalating Ukraine crisi


Bizarre video on the Ukraine crisis: British warn of "Russia's script"

Created: 02/20/2022, 06:20

By: Astrid Theil

A video released by the British Foreign Office warns of pretexts that Russia could create for an invasion of Ukraine.

(Archive photo) © dpa/PA Media/Uk Parliament/Jessica Taylor

The British Foreign Office is using unusual means to intervene and warn in the escalating Ukraine crisis.

LONDON - The British government has repeatedly warned that Russia could create pretexts to invade Ukraine.

Now Great Britain has backed up these warnings in an unusual way: The British Foreign Office published a painstakingly produced social media video on Twitter on Friday (February 18), which said, among other things, "We know Russia's script.

Don't be fooled."

Social media video: British Foreign Office warns about Russia

The video shows moving images of street scenes and marching soldiers overlaid with text in white letters.

The almost one-and-a-half-minute clip lists various scenarios that Russia could stage and pass on to Ukrainian forces, accompanied by piano music.

These include a terrorist attack on civilians or the provocation of violence to pass off a subsequent invasion as a peacekeeping mission.

The video points out that the Russian government has used such pretexts to justify military action in the past.

This was the case with the annexation of Crimea in 2014.

Secret services would also have uncovered this strategy in the current situation.

Therefore, the video urges caution about Russian claims that could justify an invasion.

The video also formulates a call to Russia: The Kremlin should act to de-escalate, respect Ukraine's borders and participate in the international dialogue to defuse the crisis.

Fears over Russia: 'false flag operations'

Both Prime Minister Boris Johnson and British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss have repeatedly warned against “false flag operations”.

Johnson recently said that such actions could increase in the coming days.

The current situation in the Ukraine crisis is still described internationally as extremely precarious.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has commented on the high Russian military presence on the border with Ukraine, stressing that this is the largest concentration of military forces in Europe since the end of the Cold War.

Stoltenberg said this on Friday in

the

ZDF

Today Journal

.

According to Western estimates, the deployment of troops is currently around 150,000 soldiers.

This military presence has fueled fears for weeks that Russia could invade Ukraine.

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Source: merkur

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