Posted on 06/26/2022 1:42:05 AM PDT by Mount Athos
As Russian troops press ahead with a grinding campaign to seize eastern Ukraine, the nation’s ability to resist the onslaught depends more than ever on help from the United States and its allies — including a stealthy network of commandos and spies rushing to provide weapons, intelligence and training, according to U.S. and European officials.
But even as the Biden administration has declared it will not deploy American troops to Ukraine, some C.I.A. personnel have continued to operate in the country secretly, mostly in the capital, Kyiv, directing much of the vast amounts of intelligence the United States is sharing with Ukrainian forces, according to current and former officials.
A few dozen commandos from other NATO countries, including Britain, France, Canada and Lithuania, also have been working inside Ukraine. The United States withdrew its own 150 military instructors before the war began in February, but commandos from these allies either remained or have gone in and out of the country since then, training and advising Ukrainian troops and providing an on-the-ground conduit for weapons and other aid, three U.S. officials said.
President Biden and allied leaders are expected to discuss additional support for Ukraine at a meeting of the Group of 7 industrialized nations that begins in Germany on Sunday and at a NATO summit in Spain later in the week.
The commandos are not on the front lines with Ukrainian troops and instead advise from headquarters in other parts of the country or remotely by encrypted communications...
The C.I.A. officers operating in Ukraine have focused on directing the intelligence that the U.S. government has been providing the Ukrainian government.
“They are losing 100 soldiers a day.” a former Trump administration official said. “And they are losing a lot of experienced people.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
How true. Zalensky himslef is said to have salted away over 80 million dollars in Swiss aacounts, siphonoimg off some of the aid.
This is not an economic way to wage war, that is using Ukraine as a proxy. If we do not confron Russia directly, then we will indeed soon be in WWIII.
I don’t doubt Russia “loses” 100 per day. But Ukraine loses 1,000. How many of these “commandos” (a laughable description) ain’t coming home.
Please explain what confronting Russia would look like, and under what constitutional authority would we act?
International law of the Sea.
RT @RT_com Russia state-affiliated media
Dozens of foreign fighters killed in Donbass strike – Russia
Moscow says the troops were stationed inside a zinc factory
11:30 PM · Jun 25, 2022
No one has a clue what that means.
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Bet the black market is riding high on weapons.
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