General Lipovoy: The West can start a conflict with Russia by dressing soldiers in uniform RF Armed Forces

European countries have extensive experience in provoking armed conflicts by disguising their saboteurs in the form of a potential enemy. And NATO's war with Russia can start with this.

This possible scenario of the outbreak of the Third World War was outlined to the TASS news agency by the chairman of the Presidium of the all-Russian organization "Officers of Russia", Hero of Russia, Major General Sergei Lipovoy.

He believes that a war could start if Russia is involved in some large-scale provocation with dressing up in a Russian uniform, somewhere on the border with NATO.

In this regard, the general noted that the facts of preparation for such operations by NATO have already been repeatedly recorded, in particular in the Kaliningrad region. At landfills located in In the Baltic states, units dressed in Russian uniforms were observed.

According to the veteran, it is absolutely known that such situational scenarios are being actively developed, as evidenced by Russian intelligence data.

As EADaily reported, the Second World War began with just such a special operation. On August 31, 1939, in the German town of Gleiwitz near the Polish border, sabotage groups The SS, under the guise of the Polish military, carried out attacks on a radio station, forestry and a customs point.

The next day, on September 1, Adolf Hitler announced that from that moment on, Germany was at war with Poland.