{"id":1413503,"date":"2026-07-24T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T09:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1413503"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:34:13","slug":"russia-prepares-false-flag-provocations-against-nato-countries-ccd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/russia-prepares-false-flag-provocations-against-nato-countries-ccd\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Prepares False-Flag Provocations Against NATO Countries \u2014 CCD"},"content":{"rendered":" <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia is preparing false-flag provocations aimed at NATO member states in an effort to erode allied trust in Ukraine, according to Andrii Kovalenko, head of Ukraine&#8217;s Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/t.me\/akovalenko1989\/11005\">Telegram<\/a> statement cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\">UATV English.<\/a><\/p>\n    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Russia is preparing false-flag provocations against NATO countries. In particular, it may use drones disguised as Ukrainian ones to carry out attacks against the Baltic states as well as provocations against Poland in order to undermine trust in Ukraine,&#8221; Kovalenko wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that Russia&#8217;s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is behind planning these operations, with the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) potentially also involved.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As previously reported, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz said Russia could be preparing provocations against Poland using captured Ukrainian drones.<\/p>\n   <p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukrainian-magura-naval-drones-to-be-manufactured-in-the-united-states\/\">Ukrainian Magura Naval Drones to Be Manufactured in the United States<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is preparing false-flag provocations aimed at NATO member states in an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1256339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,49,36415,53,36422,55,50,36537],"tags":[76,78,72930,72946],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1413503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ukraine","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en","category-russia-en","category-11473-news-en-3","category-ukraine-en","category-svit-en","category-11473-ukraine-en-news-en-4","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en","tag-russian-disinformation","tag-ukraine-nato"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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