UK and US accuse Russia of ‘manufacturing pretext’ for Ukraine attack
US secretary of state Antony Blinken addresses the United Nations Security Council (Richard Drew/AP)
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.
