Why is the White House releasing US intelligence on Putin’s moves in Ukraine? Behind the unusual strategy

WASHINGTON – It’s all hype and hysteria, an effort by the U.S. and its allies to stoke Russia-Ukraine tensions and a pretext for the West to send more military aid to Kyiv.

That’s how top Kremlin officials and Russia’s tightly controlled state media are casting the Biden administration’s increasingly stark warnings that Russia could invade Ukraine “any day now.”