Ukraine crisis: European Union concerned about “manipulation” of information – Yahoo News

The European Union expressed concern on Saturday about an intensification of efforts to manipulate information intended to serve as fabricated pretexts for justify a military escalation in Ukraine.

“The European Union is extremely concerned that staged events could be used as a pretext for a possible military escalation,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement. manipulation of information to support such purposes,” he added.

The OSCE has a “key role”

The warning comes as Russian state media published unverifiable reports of violence in eastern Ukraine, a region held in part by pro-Russian rebels. Russian media accuse Kiev of planning an assault on the rebel enclave in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

“The EU sees no basis in the allegations coming from the non-government-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk about a possible Ukrainian attack,” added Josep Borrell. He defended the “key role” played by observers deployed by the OSCE in Ukraine to check what is happening on the ground, and in passing “welcomed Ukraine’s attitude of moderation in the face of continuous provocations and destabilization efforts”.

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The EU member states and the United States are convinced that Moscow is looking for a pretext to attack Ukraine by using violent incidents on the ground and the dissemination of false information by allied agencies. For US President Joe Biden, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would only be a matter of days.

Original article published on BFMTV.com