Washington’s warning about a potential ‘false flag’ operation come after a cyber attack took out Ukranian government websites.
| The Biden administration warned that Russian actors are preparing potential sabotage operations against their own forces and fabricating provocations in social media toAs part of the plan, President Vladimir Putin’s government has prepositioned operatives trained in urban warfare and in using explosives, possibly to carry out acts of sabotage against Russia’s proxy forces in or near Ukraine, administration officials said on Friday .
Mr Kirby said “there is a fidelity here to the information that we have that we believe is very credible”. US President Joe Biden was briefed on Friday’s attack, but the US didn’t immediately pin the blame on any group or nation, and administration officials said the affected websites appear to be coming back online.
In previous incursions in Ukraine’s Crimea region and in Georgia, Russia was accused of ramping up disinformation campaigns and staging “false flag” events to justify its interventions. Russia has rejected those charges. The Biden administration has discussed an array of possible actions by Moscow it believes should trigger retaliation, according to people familiar with discussions that have taken place this week. Aside from sending troops into Ukraine, it could include an effort to engineer a coup against Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy or other acts to destabilise his government.
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