How do they hunt Russian generals? – US footprint in the war
Of the United States Russia A number of Ukrainian intelligence information about the units Russia generalallowed him to target and kill. The New York Times quotes leading US officials as saying.
Ukraine The side has so far had about 12 on the front line generali said he killed. The newspaper writes that, Biden administration provides real-time information to Ukraine Here Russia also includes the expected trajectory of soldiers. How many US officials with the help of intelligence generaldid not specify that he was killed.
How the information was used
The United States is the location of the Russian military’s mobile headquarters and gave other details. Ukraine officials artillery by combining geographical information with their own intelligence and carried out other strikes and killed Russian officers.
The NYT says the sharing of intelligence is part of an accelerated flow of US aid to Ukraine. Russian occupation snowshowing tough resistance KyivHeavier weapons and billions of dollars in aid are being sent.
Russia, which launched an attack on Ukraine on February 24, was unable to advance in the north of the country and turned its forces east. But the Donbas operation is also reported to be slow.
NYT notes that, Biden The administration has kept much of the frontline intelligence secret, fearing that it could escalate and provoke Russian President Vladimir Putin into a wider war.
U.S. officials did not say how they obtained information about Russian military headquarters. But since the beginning of the war, US intelligence agencies have kept it a secret, from various sources and known to use commercial satellites.
Information about the highest ranks is not transmitted
After the publication of this article Milli Security Council spokesman Adrien Watson said in a statement that, Military intelligence was not given to Ukraine “with the intention of killing Russian generals.”
However, the newspaper writes that not all the strikes were carried out by American intelligence. U.S. intelligence also played a role in the strike, which took place shortly after Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov’s visit to Izyum in eastern Ukraine over the weekend. The newspaper writes this with reference to numerous US officials. According to them according toThe United States has banned the transfer of intelligence about the highest-ranking Russian officials.
But officials say U.S. intelligence has played a key role in the shooting.
Russia has so far confirmed that two generals were killed in the war.