Paul Goble
Staunton,
July 11 – Likely with an eye on the Helsinki summit, the Russian authorities
are preparing some sort of provocation in occupied Crimea, one they will blame
on Kyiv as part of their continuing effort to discredit it in the eyes of the West,
according to Lt. Gen. Vasily Bohdan, a Ukrainian specialist on security matters.
He
tells Adrian Radchenko of Apostrophe today that the recent upsurge in Russian
commentary about Ukraine’s illegitimacy and its ongoing efforts to demoralize and
destabilize Ukraine in general all point to that conclusion (apostrophe.ua/article/society/accidents/2018-07-11/putin-gotovit-novyie-teraktyi-chego-opasatsya-ukraine/19297).
Putin has a long history, extending
back to the apartment bombings of 1999, of orchestrating terrorist attacks, blaming
them on others, and using the reaction to his benefit,the general continues.
Now is clearly a time when such a terrorist event would again appear to work
for him if he could shift blame to Kyiv.
Consequently, Ukraine and its friends
should be on alert for such a possibility in the coming days.
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