US Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger told journalists that Washington was seeking to hold Russia to account for its aggressive moves in cyberspace:
A representative of the Lugansk Peoples Republic in the Joint Centre for Control and Coordination registers shelling fragments in the village of Mykolaivka.Russian military intelligence was behind the recent cyberattacks that knocked Ukrainian banking and defence ministry websites offline, the United States and United Kingdom say.
Ms Neuberger said Americans had data showing that infrastructure connected with Russia's military agency, generally known as the GRU, "was seen transmitting high volumes of communication to Ukraine-based IP addresses and domains".'If Russia opts for escalation, Ukraine will defend itself' says Ukrainian ambassador to UN
It comes amid artillery shelling in the east of Ukraine and orders from Russian-backed separatists for civilians to evacuate the region ratcheted up already crackling tensions over the massing of Russian troops Friday ahead of what the United States says is a likely invasion.
There were growing fears that only a spark - which Washington warns could be a deliberate "false flag" incident created by the Russians - might now be needed to set off the largest military confrontation in Europe since World War II. But US Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused the Kremlin of mounting a propaganda campaign to create an excuse for war.
He claimed Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, would soon "give the order for soldiers to go on the offensive."The leader of neighbouring Lugansk Leonid Pasechnik also urged residents to evacuate to Russia "to prevent civilian casualties".
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