The United States is sending billions of dollars in military equipment to Ukraine, including heavy artillery, drones and anti-tank missiles. Government officials have provided detailed information on these missions up to the number of bullets. But they are far more sparing when describing another decisive contribution to Ukraine's success on the battlefield: information about the Russian military.
Information on the position and movements of Russian forces is directed at Ukraine in real time and includes satellite images and reports collected by sensitive US sources, according to US and Ukrainian officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to the Washington Post. describe the cooperation between the two countries at this level.
“The information is valuable. “They are informing us of the whereabouts of the Russians so that we can strike them,” said a Ukrainian official.On the other hand, Biden officials stress that the United States is not at war with Russia and that its assistance is aimed at defending Ukraine against an illegal invasion. However, according to the report, US officials have limited control over how the Ukrainians use their military equipment and the information they provide.
This risks provoking the Kremlin to retaliate against the United States and its allies, increasing the threat of a nuclear nightmare.
escalating tensions between Washington and Moscow are avoided. The intelligence passed to Hussein provided information on two types of information that the United States may share with Ukraine.
Do not provide information that would help assassinate Russian military leaders
First, the US can not provide detailed information that would help Ukraine assassinate Russian leaders, such as top military officials or ministers. Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, and Sergei Shoigu, Minister of Defense, for example, fall into this category.
The ban, however, does not extend to Russian officials, including generals, many of whom have died on the battlefield. But a senior official said that while the US government “restrains itself on paper only for strategic leadership”, it has also chosen not to provide information on the location of generals in Ukraine.
The United States “is not actively assisting the Ukrainians in killing generals of any kind,” said a Defense official. “Anything that would help Ukraine attack Russian targets outside its borders,” officials said. This rule is partly aimed at preventing the United States from becoming part of the attacks that Ukraine may launch inside Russia.
This was the concern that led the government to suspend its previous plans to supply Polish-supplied fighter jets that could be used by Kyiv to launch attacks on Russian soil, although this does not mean that Washington has discouraged Ukraine. to carry out such operations on its own.
After all, such attacks seem to have taken place, and Blinken's response was that such actions are the right of Ukraine without itself taking any responsibility for them.
< p> Putin's eyes do not seem to be escalating brings significant successes, but not ones that give Moscow the opportunity to talk about – and prove – a proxy war.
It is no coincidence that the strike on the Moskva flagship could not have taken place without even the indirect information provided by the US. “Without information from the United States, Ukraine would have a hard time targeting the warship with the necessary confidence to spend two valuable Neptune missiles, which were in short supply,” the paper quoted sources as saying.
The US is trying to help Ukraine in the war but without their actions seem to escalate in Putin's eyes.
“If the US provided targeted information to another country and was so closely involved “It would mean that we are directing these forces and that they are acting as agents for us,” said Scott R. Anderson, a former State Department official who was a legal adviser to the US embassy in Baghdad. “This could be seen as approaching the red line of a real attack on Russia, so Moscow could undoubtedly respond in the same way.”
