The U.S. has warned that Moscow may use false claims about the conflict in eastern Ukraine as pretext for an invasion.
A member of the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service keeps watch at the Senkivka checkpoint near the border with Belarus and Russia in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine February 16, 2022.Ukraine has denied claims by Russian state-controlled media that it launched shells in eastern Ukraine, and accused Moscow-backed rebels of attacking a village in the region.
"Ukrainian Stanytsia Luhanska village was shelled with heavy weapons from the occupied territory of the Donbas. Civilian infrastructure damaged," he tweeted. Neither report could be independently verified by CNBC. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe recorded multiple shelling incidents in eastern Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday, Reuters reported.
The U.S. warned on Wednesday that Moscow may use false claims about the conflict in eastern Ukraine as a pretext for an invasion of the country.
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