He said this at a press conference following a two-day meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Riga on Wednesday, December 1, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.
"We're deeply concerned by evidence that Russia has made plans for significant aggressive moves against Ukraine. The plans include efforts to destabilize Ukraine from within, as well as large-scale military operations. Now, we've seen this playbook before, in 2014, when Russia last invaded Ukraine," Blinken said.
He noted that then, as now, Russia significantly increased combat forces near the border. At the same time, then, as now, Russia intensified disinformation to paint Ukraine as the aggressor to justify pre-planned military action, Blinken said.
According to him, in recent weeks, there has been a massive spike – more than tenfold – in social media activity pushing anti-Ukrainian propaganda, approaching levels last seen in the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014.
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