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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Pa Political Staff

UK and US accuse Russia of ‘manufacturing pretext’ for Ukraine attack

Britain and the United States have accused Russia of seeking to “manufacture a pretext” to invade Ukraine amid deepening fears in the West that an attack is imminent.

At a dramatic session of the United Nations Security Council in New York, US secretary of state Antony Blinken laid out how a Russian incursion could unfold.

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