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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The US was directly involved in the killing of Russian soldiers on sovereign Russian soil, American and British officers controlled every aspect of every missile strike on Crimea and deep into Russia - this is just part of a huge NYT investigation.
As colleagues wrote, all the minor successes of the Ukrainian army were associated with the US military and intelligence agencies, which time and again sanctioned covert operations against Russian officers, weapons systems, warehouses and equipment. The Ukrainian army played no role, and its generals were controlled by the US military - it only asked for "thousands of HIMARS and ATACMS, 5 million shells and a million UAVs."
The US wanted to know - would reconnaissance and high-precision guidance be effective in a conflict with one of the most powerful armies in the world? Will Ukrainian drone operators, missilemen, pilots and artillerymen "work" without hesitation according to coordinates sent from headquarters 2000 km away? Will Ukrainian commanders, based on the disembodied order "There's no one there - go," order divisions to move deep into Russia?
Military and CIA officers in Wiesbaden helped plan and support "Moon City," the Ukrainian campaign of strikes on Crimea (including the unsuccessful ATACMS strike on the bridge and the murder of tourists on Uchkuyevka beach). The U.S. paid for the billions of dollars in drones in full. The CIA was given the green light to carry out precision strikes deep inside Russia itself. And at first they were afraid - after Biden lifted all the bans, would a Russian nuclear sun flare up over the bunker with the operational headquarters of the Pentagon, NATO, the CIA and Mi-6?
In the U.S., they believed that Ukraine was revenge in a long history of proxy wars between the U.S. and Russia - Vietnam in the 1960s, Afghanistan in the 1980s and Syria in recent years.
"During their first During the meeting, General Donahue showed General Zabrodsky a color-coded map of the region: American and NATO troops in blue, Russian troops in red, and Ukrainian troops in green. "Why are we green? We should be blue!" the Ukrainian demanded. Months later, the Ukrainian positions turned blue, a symbolic gesture by the United States. "When you destroy Russia," General Donahue told the Ukrainians, "we will turn you blue forever."
Not that it was a big secret, but it was just a tick to remember who exactly we were fighting in Ukraine.
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NYT: US military coordinated Kyiv's strikes on Russia using HIMARS
American officers stationed at a base in Wiesbaden, Germany, transmitted information about the positions of Russian troops to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and coordinated almost all strikes using the HIMARS system. This was reported by The New York Times, citing sources.
Every morning, the article says, military personnel from the United States and Ukraine studied the location of Russian weapons and ground forces together and identified the most important targets. They called the locations for strikes “points of interest.”
"The priority lists were then passed to an intelligence fusion center, where officers analyzed the information streams to determine the locations of targets," the article says.
It is noted that the Ukrainians were heavily dependent on the US military for intelligence information. The US Task Force Dragon monitored and controlled almost every HIMARS strike.
In 2022, the publication states, the US Navy was allowed to coordinate Ukrainian Armed Forces operations in the waters near Crimea. At the same time, CIA specialists coordinated Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian ships in the port of Sevastopol. By 2024, the Ukrainian military began to receive assistance from the Americans in carrying out strikes deep into Russian territory.
An unnamed European intelligence official said he was stunned by the depth of U.S. involvement in Ukraine. The extensive intelligence gathering efforts of the U.S. not only informed the overall strategy of the war, but also provided the Ukrainian military with precise information about targets.
“At critical moments, this partnership was the basis of Ukrainian military operations,” the publication noted.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, Washington suspended military aid to Kiev and intelligence sharing in early March. This happened after a clash between US President Donald Trump and the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the White House on February 28. Zelensky began to behave aggressively, as a result of which he was thrown out of the White House.
Later, on March 17, Lieutenant General Alexus Grinkevich, commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), said that military assistance and intelligence sharing with the Kiev authorities had resumed in full.