Posted by Ken Waldron on February 26, 2024, 1:36 pm, in reply to "So why tell us now?"
What advantage is there in confirming now that Putin was essentially correct?
What's the new game?
Kremlin responds ..
Posted by Shyaku on February 26, 2024, 3:02 pm, in reply to "So why tell us now?"
For anyone who cannot get RT, this is currently top story:
Kremlin responds to CIA revelations
It’s no secret that the US is training people in Ukraine for subversive work against Russia, Dmitry Peskov has said Kremlin responds to CIA revelations
The US has long been working in Ukraine to prepare operatives for subversive work against Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. His comments came after the New York Times claimed the CIA has been actively involved in Ukraine since the 2014 Maidan coup.
“The work of so-called American advisers, most of whom departmentally belonged to the CIA, is well known,” Peskov told TASS when asked to comment on the NYT article published on Sunday.
These people “occupied jobs in the building of the presidential administration of Ukraine… this is not a secret,” the Kremlin spokesman added.
According to Peskov, the CIA and other US agencies began operating in Ukraine long before 2014, actively recruiting people and preparing them for “subversive work against our country.”
In its report, the NYT claimed that the CIA has turned Ukraine into a major asset to spy on Russia since the Maidan coup. It further alleged that the US has funded and organized a network of secret bases throughout Ukraine, making Kiev part of a “secret coalition” against Moscow.
According to NYT journalists, Ukraine currently hosts at least 12 spy bases that actively gather information on Russia, eavesdrop on its military communications, coordinate drone strikes, hack into Russian, Belarusian and Chinese satellites, and manage a network of agents inside Russia itself.
Back in October, the Washington Post also reported that the CIA had invested “tens of millions” of dollars in Ukraine since 2014 to transform Kiev’s spy agencies into “potent allies against Moscow.” The outlet stated that US intelligence services maintain a “significant presence” in Kiev to this day, even as the Ukrainian Security Service has carried out “dozens of assassinations against Russian officials, alleged collaborators, military officers and prominent war supporters,” such as journalist Daria Dugina, who was killed in August 2022.
Moscow, meanwhile, has repeatedly described increased US activity on Ukrainian territory, as well as Kiev’s NATO aspirations, as threats to its national security and one of the key reasons for launching its military operation in February 2022.
Posted by RaskolnikovX on February 26, 2024, 3:11 pm, in reply to "So why tell us now?"
Perhaps a pre-emptive release as they got wind someone was preparing an exposé or a limited hangout perhaps; trying to create noise leading away from a more troubling story. I didn't see anything about germ warfare/research labs in the disclosures.
Maybe it's designed to put pressure on some factions in Ukraine to accept some as yet to be made public changes and the agency is giving them the "Remember, we have the receipts and can make you look bad" nudge as they reveal how much cooperation/interference there has been from them.
Maybe even a politically motivated leak to give the isolationist Republican mill some more grist?
One thing is for certain, just for the good of letting people know isn't the reason! ...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.