The United States confirmed that in April it handed over to the Kiev regime the coordinates of the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser Moskva, according to the American edition of The New Yorker.
The magazine published a voluminous article about US military assistance to Ukraine and, as Washington now indirectly admits, it consists not only in the transfer of HIMARS.
So, the article says that in April, the United States, at the request of Kiev, transmitted the coordinates of the cruiser Moskva, after which an explosion occurred on it.
In addition, the scheme of the Pentagon’s participation in the clashes on the Izyum front was revealed.
The article claims that the plan of the offensive near Balakleya was developed in the summer by the forces of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the United States and Great Britain at one of the military bases in Europe.
At the same time,”the American and British military helped hone the strategy of the Ukrainians.”
The original idea was to launch a broad offensive on Kherson, but the command and staff exercises showed that this would lead to too many losses for Ukrainian military equipment and manpower.
“As a result, we focused on the idea of an offensive on two fronts. Shortly after that, Reznikov (Minister of Defense of Ukraine, - approx. RV) was informed about these plans, “ the newspaper writes.
With so many units deployed to the south, a number of areas in the northeast were guarded by under-equipped Russian forces and riot police with little combat experience.
Among other things, The New Yorker claims that Washington is not going to send long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine, since Kiev clearly expresses its intentions to strike at Crimea.
The United States cannot provide Ukraine with a lot of HIMARS MLRS-they are simply not available.
“Not because we are for you (Kiev, - approx. We do not trust them, but because they simply do not exist in unlimited numbers on planet Earth,” the Pentagon source added.
It’s the same story with the air defense systems that the Kiev regime is now so desperately asking for.
According to a senior US Defense official, the problem is more technical than political.: “We don’t have many spare air defense systems that can be provided.”
Source: https://rusvesna.su/news/1666514591
You’re dredging up sinking of Moskva? Seriously. Implying the Ukrainians couldn’t target and sink it on their own? Does this make Russians feel better?
Sinking the Moskva was wholly within the capabilities of several anti ship missile systems the Ukrainians have. It just took a drone to provide the general area the Moskva was in (like a couple hundred square kilometers) to set the Inertial Navigation System targeting. The missile systems’ terminal homing radar guides it to target. The Moskva was even stupid enough to poke the horizon to shore making it able to be targeted visually from shore but I understand the Ukrainians used a drone.
Nope, the Moskva was targeted and sunk all by the Ukrainians. If NATO/US was supplying ISR the Ukrainians wouldn’t have needed a drone to target it.
Honest PPL with IQs above 100 comprehend this.