in regards to the cause of SMO

  • Wilshire@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Repost with edited title. NY times? The best part is in the body you put “in regards to the cause of SMO”.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Mr. Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the C.I.A., together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.

    In Kyiv, Mr. Nalyvaichenko picked a longtime aide, General Kondratiuk, to serve as head of counterintelligence, and they created a new paramilitary unit that was deployed behind enemy lines to conduct operations and gather intelligence that the C.I.A.

    The new station chief began regularly visiting General Kondratiuk, whose office was decorated with an aquarium where yellow and blue fish — the national colors of Ukraine — swam circles around a model of a sunken Russian submarine.

    also oversaw a training program, carried out in two European cities, to teach Ukrainian intelligence officers how to convincingly assume fake personas and steal secrets in Russia and other countries that are adept at rooting out spies.

    One day after General Kondratiuk was removed, a mysterious explosion in the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, ripped through an elevator carrying a senior Russian separatist commander named Arsen Pavlov, known by his nom de guerre, Motorola.

    In the southern Kherson region, which was occupied by Russia in the first weeks of the war, those partisan networks sprang into action, according to General Kondratiuk, assassinating local collaborators and helping Ukrainian forces target Russian positions.


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  • popcap200@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    How based the USA is. Helping where we can to keep free democracies like Ukraine safe from authoritarians like Putin.

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        8 months ago

        Half /s, does that count? Lol. Obviously the CIA in central America and the Middle East was bad, but the CIA helping Ukraine with Intel and aid is a very good thing.

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    8 months ago

    How long till we finally admit that the war was not unprovoked? We should do direct payments to the military suppliers and forego the blowing up countries part.