Russia Slams Blinken at UN Summit Over His ‘Dangerous’ Claim that Putin Might Launch False Flag Chemical Weapons Attack Before Invading Ukraine – And Insists Russian Troops ARE Retreating
- Russia Slams Blinken at UN Summit Over His ‘Dangerous’ Claim that Putin Might Launch False Flag Chemical Weapons Attack Before Invading Ukraine – And Insists Russian Troops ARE Retreating
by ROB CRILLY, SENIOR U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER and MORGAN PHILLIPS, POLITICS REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and CHRIS PLEASANCE and NICK CRAVEN IN KIEV, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
* Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out Thursday the fullest account yet of Russia’s plans to attack Ukraine
* He told the UN Security Council, that Russia could even use chemical weapons to build a pretext for invasion
* The morning brought a rapid series of diplomatic moves, as President Putin appeared to flex his muscles
* Russia told the US to withdraw troops from Central and Eastern Europe, a state news agency said on Thursday
* Washington has previously rejected the demand, but Moscow included it again in a new written response
* President Joe Biden said he feared an invasion could come ‘within the next several days’
* Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels accused each other of shelling their positions in Eastern Ukraine
* And Moscow expelled the US deputy ambassador, which Washington said was an ‘escalatory step’
* Ukraine’s military said separatists hit a kindergarten on their side of the frontier with shells, before pro-Russian forces claimed the building was actually on their side and was hit by Kiev’s men
* Shells were also fired at Popasna, on the Ukrainian side of the frontline, with a secondary school struck
* NATO and the UK have warned that Russia is staging a false flag operations aimed at justifying an attack
* Meanwhile satellite images revealed new pontoon bridge built north of Kiev and huge movement of vehicles across Belarus, Russia and Crimea amid warnings that Putin is moving his forces closer to the border
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