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We do have information that indicates that russia is already working actively to create a pretext for a potential invasion, for a move on ukraine. in fact, we have information that they ve pre positioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation, an operation designed to look like an attack on them or russian speaking people in ukraine, again, as an excuse to go in. that was the pentagon press secretaryjohn kirby. the authorities in kazakhstan say the recent violence in their country had been an organised attack on kazakhstan s statehood. they blamed the clashes on armed extremists. it s thought dozens of people were killed, many of them in the country s largest city almaty. 0ur correspondent ....
The pentagon spokesmanjohn kirby said what they wanted to do was to get this information out there so the world would have some idea of how this could potentially play out, and if it did happen this way, they would know what was going on, to basically preempt any russian claims of ukrainian aggression. and the administration has also said many times that this is a familiar playbook. these are the type of tactics that the russians used when they invaded crimea in 2014. barbara plett usher. the authorities in kazakhstan say the recent violence in their country had been an organised attack on kazakhstan s statehood. they blamed the clashes on armed extremists. it s thought dozens of people were killed, many of them in the country s largest city almaty. our correspondent steve rosenberg has more. in a country the size of western europe, there is one question people are struggling to answer. why? why was kazakhstan rocked by violence? the worst unrest here ....