From EUobserver · · 40s
Forged News in Putin's Info Wars
Military conscripts in Kaliningrad were blamed for a fire, but it was a Western counter-attack simulation.
In brief
Military conscripts in Kaliningrad were blamed for a fire, but it was a Western counter-attack simulation. A fictional crisis scenario involving Russian mutineers and Western blame was used to test responses to potential attacks. Originally reported by EUobserver.
Kaliningrad Fire Scenario
A lethal plume of toxic smoke was blowing towards us from a blaze at a battery manufacturing plant in Kaliningrad.
Mutiny and Blame
Troops in the Russian exclave had been ordered to help put the fire out: untrained and under-equipped, they mutinied.
Western Simulation
The crisis scenarios were hypothetical; the aim was to explore the dilemmas and trade-offs they created.
In short
A fictional crisis scenario involving Russian mutineers and Western blame was used to test responses to potential attacks.
