The Spy War: How the C.I.A. Secretly Helps Ukraine Fight Putin

New York Times ^ | Feb. 25, 2024 | Adam Entous and Michael Schwirtz

[george76]

For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia...

Nestled in a dense forest, the Ukrainian military base appears abandoned and destroyed, its command center a burned-out husk, a casualty of a Russian missile barrage early in the war.

But that is above ground.

Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov.

The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military.

There is also one more secret: The base is almost fully financed, and partly equipped, by the C.I.A

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Around 2016, the C.I.A. began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that C.I.A. technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems.

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The C.I.A.’s partnership in Ukraine can be traced back to two phone calls on the night of Feb. 24, 2014, eight years to the day before Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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The question that some Ukrainian intelligence officers are now asking their American counterparts — is whether the C.I.A. will abandon them. “It happened in Afghanistan before and now it’s going to happen in Ukraine,” a senior Ukrainian officer said.

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The C.I.A. and the HUR have built two other secret bases .. combined with the 12 forward operating bases

[ansel12]

“””For more than a decade, the United States has nurtured a secret intelligence partnership with Ukraine that is now critical for both countries in countering Russia”””

I sure liked President Trump’s actions he took against the Russia threat and regarding strengthening NATO and arming Ukraine when he was president.

[Bull Man]

We = the cabal running america now. Political elites, shadow government (cia et al), globo-cap in bed with them all. They’ve managed to poison the cultural well of the country so we are truthfully no longer recognizable. As I said, it’s tough to come to terms with, but the america we grew up with is GONE. It isn’t coming back. What we’ve become is far removed from a constitutional republic. We can pretend otherwise, but it’s mostly self delusion at this point.

[george76]

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[PGalt]

Thanks for posting.

[george76]

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[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

The CIA fights for itself, not us.