Russia-Ukraine: Biden to address latest developments as tension keeps world on edge
A U.S. State Department spokesperson said Friday that reported evacuations in eastern Ukraine and a car bombing in the city of Donetsk “are further attempts to obscure through lies and disinformation that Russia is the aggressor in this conflict.”
The State Department on Friday condemned evacuation calls by the Russia-backed separatist groups in Eastern Ukraine as “false flag operations” that security officials have been warning against.
“Announcements like these are further attempts to obscure through lies and disinformation that Russia is the aggressor in this conflict,” a State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “This type of false flag operation is exactly what Secretary Blinken highlighted in his remarks to the UN Security Council.”
Leonid Pasechnik, leader of the separatist group in the breakaway Luhansk People’s Republic, ordered people to evacuate the Eastern Ukraine region and head for Russia following “the escalation of tension.”
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