Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the decision by Russia and Belarus to extend military exercises that were due to conclude on Sunday shows that Moscow is following the “playbook” leading to an invasion of Ukraine.“It tells us that the playbook we laid out, I laid out at the UN Security Council last week about Russia trying to create a series of provocations as justifications for aggression against Ukraine, is going forward,” Blinken said in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said the decision to continue the exercises was made “in connection with the increase in military activity near the external borders” of Russia and Belarus and because of rising tensions in the Donbas region, where Russian-backed rebels are clashing with Ukrainian forces.
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