Posted on 06/09/2022 3:45:42 AM PDT by FarCenter
Summary and overview
The Russian Ministry of Defense says that its forces now control 97% of the city of Severodonetsk.
The situation on a smaller scale strongly resembles the final phase of the Mariupol siege, with hundreds of Ukrainian civilians and troops holed up in the Azot fertilizer plant. The Ukrainian tactic of “fighting for every inch” may be dictated by Kiev for political reasons; militarily it makes little to no sense.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the US government has better information on Russian troops in Ukraine than on Ukrainian forces and that Kiev is keeping the US in the dark and possibly even misleading it to protect the rich flow of American military aid into the country.
The paper quotes Beth Sanner, a former CIA officer (35 years of service) and deputy director of national intelligence, saying that the US intelligence community was setting a potential trap for itself.
“We do not talk about whether Ukraine might be able to defeat [the Russians]. And to me, I feel that we are setting ourselves up for another intel failure by not talking about that publicly,” she said.
Of course, for a former senior US intelligence official of the “it’s a slam dunk generation” to claim that US intelligence is groping in the dark is unusual. Might we be seeing the start of the “who lost Ukraine?” debate?
(Excerpt) Read more at asiatimes.com ...
[ Ukraine SITREP ] Day 104-105 (7-8/6) Summary - Russia push forward in Southern and Luhansk fronts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOfqzwJu7ck&ab_channel=DefensePoliticsAsia
“Kiev is keeping the US in the dark and possibly even misleading it to protect the rich flow of American military aid into the country.”
In the next few weeks the Russians will acquire a lot of new US tech as the Ukrainian forces try to escape the encirclement. Perhaps the outcome will be different, but if the Russians force the surrender of the Donbass troops, the entire Ukrainian defense line may fall apart.
Ukrainian Official Admits She Lied About Russians Committing Mass Rape to Convince Countries to Send More Weapons
And it worked.
US Intel has been groping in the dark since the eighties
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