Kremlin plotting false-flag terrorist attacks to blame Ukraine - media

That’s according to Guildhall, referring to a source in Ukraine’s intelligence community, Ukrinform reports.

At the moment, several options for the execution of an act of terror are being considered, including explosions targeting public transport, the downing of a civilian airliner, and an attack on nuclear infrastructure facilities or nuclear weapons storage sites. Several options may as well be employed.

In this way, the Kremlin hopes to give the Russian audience the impression that Ukraine is a threat to their very existence, which is supposed to contribute to the process of a military call-up. Also, with the help of a terrorist attack, the Russian leadership may try to justify the use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine.

As reported earlier, after the failure of the first stage of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, in April the Kremlin was plotting a false-flag provocation at one of the facilities of the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces, to blame Ukraine’s forces.

Other possible scenarios considered, along with the capture of objects, included inflicting a fire strike or carrying out an act of sabotage on such an object under the Ukrainian flag. “A probable object of the Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces on which such a provocation could be implemented is Object S, one of the central nuclear arms storage, located in Belgorod-22, bordering (Ukraine’s - ed.) Sumy region,” Oleksandr Danylyuk, chief of the Center for Defense Reforms, said referring to Ukrainian intelligence data.