Prime minister Boris Johnson has said that an attack on a kindergarten in Ukraine was a false flag operation by Russia designed to discredit the Ukrainians.
'The picture is continuing to be very grim,' Johnson told reporters during a visit to RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, when asked about the latest intelligence on Ukraine.
'A kindergarten was shelled in what we are taking to be, what we know was a false flag operation designed to discredit the Ukrainians, designed to create a pre-text, a spurious provocation for Russian action.'
'We fear very much that that is a thing we will see more of over the next few days,' Johnson added.
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