Ukraine war: 'false flag' operations – long used as weapons of mass distraction under the rules of conflict

By David Turns, Senior Lecturer in International Law, Cranfield University

The alarmist tone of recent tit-for-tat reports from the war in Ukraine has refocused attention on so-called “false flag operations” and their legality under international law.

At the beginning of March, Ukraine dismissed as “provocation” a Russian claim that Ukrainian “terrorists” or “sabotage groups” were behind a series of disputed attacks and exchanges of fire in Russia’s Kursk and Bryansk regions, near the Ukrainian frontier.

Overnight on March 9-10,…

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