false flag- invented excuse for an attack

Affected area
Compassionate people
Donations
Emergency relief
Emergency aid
Relief worker
To condemn
Internally displaced person
An NGO
to pledge support
Self-determination
Urgency
refugees
disposables
walkie-talkies
preserves
tourist mat
thermal blanket

A perilous episode
Ultimate goal
Grinding
To amass troops
Intensifying
Volatile
Subsumming
To lament
Diminishing
Tenacious resistance
Conflagration
Toppling
In the besiege
Turn back the clock
To dig trenches
Diplomatic talk
Prompt sb to do sth
Devastating humanitarian toll
Refugee crisis
To enroll in/for
Reassert
Geopolitical clout
Menacing
Strident
Foment rebellion
To grid on
guerrilla campaign
cease fire
to wind back the clock
to wield
citizen militias
Aggressive posture
To institute sanctions
Commitment
To freeze assets
To deprive of smth
Throttling banks
To impede
To reassure skittish NATO allies
A cudgel
Collective defence
An insurgency
to lay bare fracture
to halt certification
Successor

running ongoing clinical trials

get enmeshed in politics,

staying above the fray

follow the lead of other

suspend their involvement with

economic strangulation

pariah state

resorting to the horrible barbarism

flattening cities, attacking civilians

indiscriminate firepower

shelling

bemoaning smbd for smth

bemoan about sth

call on the world to act

Atrocity

be an accomplice
pathetic outcries

take a toll on civilians

collusion

inextricable link

take a stand

to be pinched

to maintain their well-being

to shell (a place) to oblivion

kleptocratic goons

feel the wrath

Tensions - strained relations

Clash-conflict

To ban- to bar

Untenable - indefensible

To deploy troops/ weapons

Launch missiles

Accuse- blame

Magnitude - Scale

Casualties - victims -death toll

Result in a significant number of deaths

Pull troops out of a country