<p>A Russian MP has said Moscow started planning for an invasion of Ukraine 12 months ago, BBC reported.</p>
<p>"We did not prepare this, this operation spontaneously," State Duma member Rifat Shaykhutdinov said on state-controlled Channel One TV on Wednesday.</p>
<p>"It had been in preparation for a year, maybe more. We understood what [was happening] and had been warning them in advance," he said in remarks on Channel One's daily talk show Time Will Tell.</p>
<p>He suggested that Russia would have come under attack had it not invaded.</p>
<p>"As soon as intelligence data arrived... that we would beat them by two days by attacking, of course we are defending our citizens there above all."</p>
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`We did not prepare this, this operation spontaneously,` State Duma member Rifat Shaykhutdinov said on state-controlled Channel One TV on Wednesday

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'We did not prepare this, this operation spontaneously,' State Duma member Rifat Shaykhutdinov said on state-controlled Channel One TV on Wednesday

Russian MP says Ukraine's invasion was planned a year ago

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