Warzone Ukraine: Information War
False Flags Everywhere
Russian False Flags
The Information War between Russia and Ukraine recently intensified. Ukraine and the United States state authorities warned that Russia may execute a false flag attack in Ukraine.
January 13, 2022 - Ukraine Ministry of Intelligence
Russian special services are preparing provocations against servicemen of the Russian Armed Forces to accuse Ukraine of this (Translated by Google Translate)
February 3, 2022 - John Kirby, US Department of Defense Press Secretary
One option is the Russian government; we -- we think is planning to stage a fake attack by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces against Russian sovereign territory or against Russian-speaking people the -- to therefore justify their action.
If Russia executes a false flag attack against Ukraine, they cannot replicate the heights of their previous endeavors in 2014.
The Crucified Boy of Slavyansk
Alexey Kovalev, creator of the Russian fact-checking website noodleremover.news, recounted a grotesque narrative from Russian media in the buildup to the 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
The gist of it was that Ukrainian forces, after retaking Slavyansk from pro-Russian militants in July 2014, supposedly subjected the town’s inhabitants to vicious retribution, including the public execution of a 3-year-old boy in front of his mother. It was a perfect piece of atrocity porn.
Kovalev further argues current Russian information operations fail to attain the status of “crucified boy“.
Contrast 2014 with 2022. Today, there is nothing in the Russian media even remotely like the “crucified boy” canard, just the usual barrage of familiar anti-Western tropes and propaganda.
Although one cannot surpass the emotional manipulation of Russian media’s 2014 masterpiece, I doubt Kovalev would classify the following stories from Russian media as “the usual barrage of familiar anti-Western tropes and propaganda.”
Western False Flags?
On January 19, 2022 Eduard Basurin, an official of the Donetsk People’s Republic, accused British and Ukrainian forces of plotting acts of terrorism. Russia Today (RT), Russia’s premier English language mouthpiece printed his forewarnings.
Ukrainian commandos trained by Britain are planning a “series of terrorist attacks” in the Donbass to use as cover for a false flag operation.
On February 3, 2022 Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a hyper nationalist Russian politician, one-upped Basurin by introducing weapons of mass destruction to the story. MK, a Russian language mouthpiece, reported his claims.
they [Western forces] can use chemical weapons there. Then it will be blamed either on the militia or on Moscow. They can change into Russian military uniforms and attack somewhere on the territory of Ukraine. CNN will show all this live to the whole world,". (Translated by Google Translate)
Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s Ambassador to the United States, entered the fray on February 4, 2022. TASS, a Russian news agency created in 1904, quoted Antonov’s allegation
The dissemination of false claims that Russia is planning a "false flag operation" in Ukraine may serve as a preparation of an alibi for potential actions by Ukraine’s Armed Forces (UAF) against Donbass.
Eduard Basurin made his triumphant return in TASS on February 7, 2022 by adding Polish intrigue to his terrorism claims of terrorism.
In the area of the Popasnaya community, a presence of two armed groups numbering up to twenty people in the mixed tactical uniform was noted. During additional reconnaissance, it was established that those individuals spoke Polish and arrived in order to implement tasks in the responsibility zone of the 24th mechanized brigade. Their goal is to conduct the special operations of selective guerilla and terror acts together with the units of Ukrainian forces, aimed at disabling vital and social infrastructure and intimidating the local population
Russia created a narrative featuring an imminent Ukrainian invasion of The Donbas. Because of this, we should not be surprised to see TASS run the following story on February 11, 2022.
The situation in eastern Ukraine is getting worse day by day, and may escalate to a point when the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) will have to request assistance from Russia, DPR leader Denis Pushilin told the Rossiya-24 TV channel.
We will see who wins this information war.