Ukrainian authorities have called false reports of Moscow’s attack plans
Media reports that the Ukrainian authorities planned to inflict a series of strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation, including Moscow, in February 2023, do not correspond to reality. This was announced on Monday April 24 by Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the chief of staff of the Ukrainian president.
According to the official, quoted by Ukrainian media, such reports, citing unnamed sources, perform a “catastrophic function” in shaping public opinion. As a result, Ukraine, Podolyak said, will appear to the West as “an unreasonable, infantile and impulsive country, which it is dangerous for adults to entrust to serious weapons”.
The official representative of Kiev also offered to find answers to questions about what such strikes on Russian territory would bring to Ukraine and how they would change the course of hostilities.
Earlier, publications appeared in Western media that Ukraine intended to launch strikes on Russian territory on February 24, 2023, but the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense abandoned these plans at Washington’s request. The source of this information was called the secret Pentagon documents, made public following the leak.
US State Department Chief Anthony Blinken declined to confirm or deny the reports, saying he would not comment on “purported intelligence documents”.
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