Exclusive: Last winter, Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate put in motion strikes on Russian troops and Wagner mercenaries in Syria, before President Zelensky directed a halt to the operations.
, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. The Department of Defense declined to comment.
Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, the chief of Ukraine’s Main Directorate for Intelligence, declined to comment.military intelligence officers favored striking Russian forces using unmanned aerial vehicles and starting “small,” or possibly limiting their strikes only to forces of the Wagner mercenary group.
of U.S. troops in Syria, where they often share bases on an ongoing mission to stifle the resurgence of the Islamic State.While it is not clear how much Ankara knew aboutUkraine help arm their enemy may not have been intolerable if Turkey thought it might draw a violent response from Moscow, according to a former U.S. official who worked in the region, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due of the sensitive nature of the intelligence.
In November, according to the leaked document, Ukrainian military intelligence officers identified potential logistical constraints to their ambitions, including “issues with intra-Kurdish border controls and establishing a base of operations.” By Dec. 29, the officers appear to have found out that Zelensky had halted their planning. It is unclear why Zelensky directed the HUR to cease planning operations, but the document assesses that he may have done so for a variety of reasons: U.S.
Ranked highest on the escalation graph is an attack on a “key Russian facility,” which is accompanied by a graphic outlining an attack on
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