CIA maintains 12 secret bases in Ukraine, CIA head was in Kyiv last week – NYT Ukrainska Pravda2024. CIA?Sun, February 25, 2024 at 4:22 PM EST
"The NYT reports that before the full-scale war, the Ukrainians proved themselves to the Americans by collecting intercepted data that helped prove Russian involvement in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jetliner in 2014. Ukrainians also helped Americans prosecute the Russian agents who interfered in the 2016 US presidential election.
Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian special forces unit known as Unit 2245, which captured Russian drones and communications equipment so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow's encryption systems. According to the NYT, one of the officers in this unit was the current head of Defence Intelligence, Kyrylo Budanov.
The CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who worked in Russia, throughout Europe, and in Cuba and other places where Russians have a significant presence.
According to The New York Times, the details of the partnership between the Ukrainian and American intelligence agencies have been a closely guarded secret for a decade.
https://news.yahoo.com/cia-maintains-12-secret-bases-212250351.html
It’s not when the report was completed or what it said, it’s the timing of the leak. The CIA does nothing but covertly, or in cases like this overtly, develop and push a political narrative. Again, why now?