The United Kingdom Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, said an imposter claiming to be Ukrainian Prime Minister put a call through to him, on Thursday.
In a series of tweets, Wallace said the caller asked him misleading questions which made him (Wallace) to terminate the call.
“Today an attempt was made by an imposter claiming to be Ukrainian PM to speak with me. He posed several misleading questions and after becoming suspicious I terminated the call,” he wrote.
Wallace said the call was a desperate attempt to distract from Russia’s human right abuses and illegal invasion of Ukraine.
“No amount of Russian disinformation, distortion and dirty tricks can distract from Russia’s human rights abuses and illegal invasion of Ukraine. A desperate attempt.”
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