After a failed “Gleiwitz boy” incident, when propaganda claims that a Ukrainian drone killed a boy in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine turned out to be physically impossible, Russia is escalating a propaganda campaign about a purported attack plot by NATO and Ukraine, all while amassing 100,000 troops at the Ukrainian border – a record since the open invasion in 2014.
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Local residents walk past a destroyed building in the small town of Krasnohorivka, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on April 20, 2021.
