The American Department of Defense denied yesterday Thursday (5/5) that Washington gives to Kyiv information that allows Ukrainian forces to kill high-ranking Russian officersas mentioned the day before yesterday (4/5) New York Times article.
It is true that the US is giving information to Kyiv “To help Ukrainians defend their country”said ο John Kerbythe Pentagon spokesman.
But, he added, “We do not provide information on the whereabouts of senior officers on the battlefield” and “We do not participate in the decisions on the objectives taken by the Ukrainian military”.
The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing anonymous imgs close to the US Secret Service, that US intelligence had given the Ukrainian military a chance to target Russian generals near the front lines.
The newspaper reported that of the more than ten senior Russian officials who claim to have been killed by Ukrainian forces, “many” were targeted thanks to information provided by Washington, without specifying exactly how many.
The National Security Council (NSC) of the US presidency also denied the publication earlier in the day, calling the publication “irresponsible”. The CNNagain, stressed that the Ukrainians had just located the Russian ship Moscowcontacted the Americans to confirm his position before hitting him.
“US provides information on battlefields to help Ukrainians defend their country”said Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the CIA, in an email received by Agence France-Presse, adding that “We do not provide information in order to kill Russian generals”.
According to the NYT publication, the US intelligence services, trying to help the Ukrainians in the fighting, give them detailed information on the movements of troops, locations and other details “about the mobile command centers of the Russian army” and the Ukrainian forces, “utilizing “By combining these elements with their own, in particular Russian interceptions of telecommunications, they thus launched artillery strikes and other attacks that resulted in the killing of Russian senior officers.”
On Monday, the Pentagon officially announced that the head of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, had gone to the front in Donbass (eastern Ukraine) for “several days” last week, implying that top Russian near the battlefields.
However, the Pentagon did not confirm the Ukrainian allegations that Valery Gerasimov was injured.
Source: News Beast
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