The US government is finding it difficult to trace large quantities of “lethal aid” transferred to Ukraine’s armed forces in recent months, officials have allegedly leaked to CNN’
The intelligence agencies say there is “almost zero” ability to follow the shipments to their final end-users.
In making the decision to send billions of dollars of weapons and equipment into Ukraine, the Biden administration factored in the risk that some of the shipments may end up in unexpected places, a defense official claimed.
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RT reports: Though weapons shipped to Ukraine account for the “largest recent supply to a partner country in a conflict,” the White House is increasingly concerned the aid “may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm,” a senior defense official told CNN on Tuesday.
“We have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero,” said another source briefed on US intelligence, adding that the weapons fall “into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time.”
Despite that “blind spot” – which the outlet suggested is “due in large part to the lack of US boots on the ground” in Ukraine and the portability of many of the weapons provided – the White House has “factored in the risk” that some American arms will go to “unexpected places,” another Pentagon official said.
Western estimates for Ukrainian casualties and other battlefield details also remain “foggy,” two intelligence sources added, meaning the United States and its NATO allies are often forced to depend on information from the government in Kiev, which they said is not always reliable.
“It’s a war – everything [Ukrainian officials] do and say publicly is designed to help them win the war. Every public statement is an information operation, every interview, every Zelensky appearance broadcast is an information operation,” said another source familiar with Western intelligence, referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Since Russia launched its attack on Ukraine in late February, Washington has provided more than $2.6 billion in military aid to Kiev and several billion more in humanitarian assistance, while President Joe Biden has sent a total of $3.2 billion since taking office in 2020. More than 100,000 American soldiers have also been redeployed to bolster NATO’s “eastern flank,” while individual members of the military bloc have also offered billions in aid themselves.
As of Tuesday, the White House is reportedly mulling yet another major lethal aid package for Ukraine in preparation for a Russian assault on the territory claimed by the Donbass republics, after authorizing $800 million in heavy artillery, drones, armored vehicles, military helicopters and other gear just last week. The Pentagon has declined to detail what the next weapons transfer will include, however.
Niamh Harris
Absolutely infuriating! This illegitimate regime is destroying this country at break neck speed.
It’s all part of the vile, wicked plan.
When I read Revelation for the first time in the late 80’s I didn’t understand any of it. Then the Holy Spirit advised me that as I got temporally closer to those events the book would begin to make sense. Revelation started making sense about 12 years ago and is only getting clearer and clearer with each reading. We are on the cusp of the start of Daniel’s final seven when the hearts of men will faint (or cower) due to the roaring of the sea (or tumult of the destruction). Look up for your salvation draws close.
If you don’t know what any of that means – The universe was created by a loving God who wants to restore spiritual life in you. To receive that spiritual life that never ends (you will become immortal), you must admit that you have broken His laws, accept that Jesus Christ, as God Himself in physical form, paid the price of your crimes and receive God’s forgiveness of your crimes through unconditional surrendering yourself to God. You will receive God’s Spirit which can never ever be lost granting you life eternal (among a host of other benefits as well as promised in God’s word, the Bible).
You can never trust pedophiles.
……….and Biden keeps sending more for his proxy war
Biden is a puppet controlled by a large Easter bunny. Its his puppet masters that are pulling his strings. Biden could not even pass a blood test in his mental state.
Biden has no problem wasting your money . $ 85 Billion left in Afghanistan . DA is arming the world and disarming us .
FAKE NEWS spoon fed to CNN who will run with it before checking its valadity.
Thats good old boy america in action LIGHT a huge BONfire in one of thier DMZ`s and dump money money and more money on it too BURN up and float away into the sky or eitherNET which the 1% also OWN-ss
should have sent all those arms over here to us in the getto things is gettin to costly to pay for and they stole the safety net years ago
OR over here in middle american we can`t pay for our food or roof-WE could have resold those arms or restocked and gotten ready for that rainly day of gloom
NO just send them to mexico so they can blow up the wally to freedom