» It was a blackmail »: Ukraine attacked Kurshchina by allied technique and violated US trust – NYT
HIMARS, Illustrative Photo: Getty Images
The US side perceived the operation of Ukraine in the Kursk region as a step towards a violation of trust, but it would not stop their support to prevent the deaths of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers that were already in Russia.
Source: The New York Times”European Truth”
Details: According to the newspaper, as of the summer of 2024, the Ukrainian army in the north and east was dangerously stretched. However, the Commander -in -Chief of the Armed Forces Alexander Sirsky continued to tell the Americans that he « needed a victory ».
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In March, Americans found that Ukrainian military intelligence secretly plans a land surgery in southwest of Russia. Then the head of the Kyiv CIA residency staged the head of GUR Kirill Budanov before the fact: if Ukrainians cross the border with Russia, they will do so without American weapons and intelligence support.
In early August, Ukrainians made a mysterious hint that something happens in the north. It was then that General Sirsky made his move-sent troops through the southwestern Russian border, to the Kursk region.
« For Americans, the deployment of this intervention has become a significant violation of trust. The fact is not only that Ukrainians again kept them in ignorance; they secretly crossed the mutually agreed line, taking the equipment provided by the coalition into the Russian territory, » the publication reads.
Earlier, Ukraine and the United States have identified a zone in Russia, where Ukrainians could shoot with American weapons, and the command in Visbaden could support their strikes with intelligence information. This was done, in particular, to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in Kharkiv region.
« It was not almost blackmail, but a blackmail, » the high -ranking official of the Pentagon commented.
After the start of the Kursk operation, the Americans could stop their support, but they knew that as a representative of the US administration explained, « could lead to a disaster »: Ukrainian soldiers in Kurshchyna would have died if they were not covered by Himars missiles and American intelligence.
The Americans came to the conclusion that the Kursk operation was a victory that the Ukrainian leadership hinted and has all the time.
One of the goals of the operation, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy explained to Americans, was the lever of influence – the admiration and maintenance of Russian land, which could be exchanged in Ukrainian in future negotiations.
In mid -March, Estonia’s intelligence confirmed that Ukraine Gradually derives Military contingent from the Kursk region of Russia.
Recently President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that pause with the provision of explored by US did not influence on the deterioration of the Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region.
