US: Russia could accuse Ukraine of attacking civilian ships
The US government has again warned that after Russia pulls out of the international grain deal, it could expand its attacks on civilian ships in the Black Sea and then blame them on Ukraine. “Our information indicates that Russia has continued to lay sea mines in the approaches to Ukrainian ports,” National Security Council communications director John Kirby said on Thursday. “And yesterday we observed that Russia released video of the discovery and detonation of what they claimed was a Ukrainian sea mine.” It is possible that this video could be a “harbinger” of a false flag attack.
On Monday, Russia declared the agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain across the Black Sea to be over, despite all international appeals. Moscow then announced that it would consider ships calling at Ukrainian ports as possible military targets in the future. In the past few nights, Russia has attacked the port of Odessa, from which many millions of tons of food have been exported in recent months, and other Ukrainian cities on the Black Sea. Moscow has been waging a war of aggression against the neighboring country for 17 months.