Intelligence warns Kremlin is preparing large-scale provocation with casualties

Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service has said that Russia is preparing a large-scale provocation with casualties on 7 January, or shortly beforehand, in an attempt to derail US-mediated peace talks.

Source: Foreign Intelligence Service on Telegram

Quote: "After the so-called 'attack on Putin's residence', we are seeing the Kremlin spread new fabricated information pretexts to prepare Russian and foreign audiences for further escalation. With a high degree of probability, we anticipate a shift from manipulative influence to an armed provocation by Russia's secret services involving significant human casualties."

Details: According to the intelligence service, the attack could be staged either on the eve of or during celebration of Christmas according to the Julian calendar.

The likely location of the provocation could be a place of worship or another site with high symbolic significance, either on Russian territory or in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

"To fabricate evidence of Ukraine's involvement, it is planned to use debris from Western-made strike UAVs, which will be brought to the site of the provocation from the front line," the Foreign Intelligence Service reported.

The intelligence service urged the media to question and carefully verify materials released by the Kremlin and to refrain from spreading Russian fake news.

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