WASHINGTON — The United States has provided intelligence that has helped Ukrainians target and kill many of the Russian generals who have died in action in the Ukraine war, according to senior American officials.
Ukrainian officials said they have killed approximately 12 generals on the front lines, a number that has astonished military analysts.
The targeting help is part of a classified effort by the Biden administration to provide real-time battlefield intelligence to Ukraine. That intelligence also includes anticipated Russian troop movements gleaned from recent American assessments of Moscow’s secret battle plan for the fighting in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the officials said. Officials declined to specify how many generals had been killed as a result of U.S. assistance.
The United States has focused on providing the location and other details about the Russian military’s mobile headquarters, which relocate frequently. Ukrainian officials have combined that geographic information with their own intelligence — including intercepted communications that alert the Ukrainian military to the presence of senior Russian officers — to conduct artillery strikes and other attacks that have killed Russian officers.
The intelligence sharing is part of a stepped-up flow in U.S. assistance that includes heavier weapons and tens of billions in aid, demonstrating how quickly the early American restraints on support for Ukraine have shifted as the war enters a new stage that could play out over months.
U.S. intelligence support to the Ukrainians has had a decisive effect on the battlefield, confirming targets identified by the Ukrainian military and pointing it to new targets. The flow of actionable intelligence on the movement of Russian troops that America has given Ukraine has few precedents.
Since failing to advance on Kyiv, the capital, in the early part of the war, Russia has tried to regroup, with a more concentrated push in eastern Ukraine that so far has moved slowly and unevenly.
Officials interviewed for this article spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of the classified intelligence being shared with Ukraine.
The administration has sought to keep much of the battlefield intelligence secret, out of fear it will be seen as an escalation and provoke President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia into a wider war. American officials would not describe how they have acquired information on Russian troop headquarters, for fear of endangering their methods of collection. But throughout the war, the U.S. intelligence agencies have used a variety of sources, including classified and commercial satellites, to trace Russian troop movements.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III went so far as to say last month that “we want to see Russia weakened to the degree it cannot do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”
Asked about the intelligence being provided to the Ukrainians, John F. Kirby, the Pentagon spokesman, said that “we will not speak to the details of that information.” But he acknowledged that the United States provides “Ukraine with information and intelligence that they can use to defend themselves.”
But Joe needs a win.
And you have been hoping from the jump that our support would turn into a disaster.
Politics stops at the water’s edge. Except for shallow Americans like you. And Tucker.
Sabbath had it right all those many years ago. No talk of peace from the good guys but plenty of war arms to be sold.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrZFscfJxXc
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Of course we do it.
And, if we want, we can let Russia know our role.
But, I don't see the advantage to leaking it to the public. It is only important that Russia know we will fight, not that he be embarrassed by it publicly. This is more likely to make Putin escalate because of the losses to the US, not de-escalate because Ukraine is embarrassing his military.
I was wondering why Biden was having press conferences telling the world we were sending artillery, etc. Let Russia make that claim, and then we can confirm or deny, at our convenience.
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Link: https://ih0.redbubble.net/image.140205749.9547/pp,550x550.u4.jpg
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No upside, tons and tons and tons of downside.
Idiocy.
Or they would lose public support. If Afghan papers were published on 2014, not the end of 2019, Americans wouldn't have supported any fund to Afghan government and army.
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I see absolutely no benefit to this leak. Putin is already trying to recast this conflict as a war against NATO. He won't even have to lie about this. Dumb Dumb Dumb.
The United States has done a masterful job disseminating intelligence to keep Russia from controlling the narrative.
Russia knows Ukraine is piggy backing off our dope. It is important that we communicate out loud that the United States is superior in every facet, that we can deliver blows from the sidelines, that we are the shot callers.
Just another way to get inside Putin’s head, and crush Russia’s morale.
Putin knows something is going on. By admitting it was us, we invite escalation. For no reason. Do you recall the reports about Russia paying bounties to The Taliban for Americans killed? How would you have felt about that if it had actually been true, rather than another plant by the Democrats?
Putin respects one thing: superior strength. So show it to him.
And even when were in a shit sandwich in Kabul, the Taliban were kept at bay during the withdrawal because they were placed on notice what would happen otherwise.
You were pretty calm about the bounty stuff.
Link: https://forum.uhnd.com/forum/index.php?action=display&forumid=2&msgid=605449
Putin has a big military parade scheduled for May 9th. Disseminating the intelligence just punked him.
Mr. Big Shot knows we can take him off the board, just like his generals.
Thus ends today’s lesson.
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there should be serious pain for publicizing intel info and procedures. either true stupidity or intentional subversion. we used to hang traitors. now we make them wealthy heros.
nauseating.
conor, do you ever read your b-mail?
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but, honestly, i did not know that not reading your b-mail was a form of deterrence. how's that work?
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Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z15pxWUXvLY
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