The US Department of Defense denied on Thursday that Washington was giving information to Kyiv that allows Ukrainian forces to kill high-ranking Russian officials, as reported in the New York Times the day before yesterday.
It is true that the United States is giving information to Kyiv “to help the Ukrainians defend their country,” said John Kerby, a Pentagon spokesman.
However, 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 sources 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 Russian senior 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 US presidency’s National Security Council (NSC) also denied the report earlier in the day, calling it “irresponsible.”
“The United States is providing information on the battlefield to help Ukrainians defend their country,” said Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the CIA, in an e-mail received by AFP. 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 “Combining these elements with their own, in particular interceptions of Russian telecommunications, thus launching artillery strikes and other attacks that resulted in the death 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 Donbas (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.
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