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Ukraine – CIA More Aggressive – Starlink And Refinery Strikes – Higher Casualties On Ukr’s Side

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Ukraine – CIA More Aggressive – Starlink And Refinery Strikes – Higher Casualties On Ukr’s Side
Three items on Ukraine.

The CIA in Ukraine:

The Atlantic has a look at the current CIA role in the war in Ukraine.

In 2014, immediately after the elected government of Ukraine had been removed by a militant putsch from the right, the CIA established more than a dozen outpost in Ukraine to agitate against and spy on Russia.

As the piece quoted below says in an aside: “The CIA helped build the modern Ukrainian intelligence apparatus after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.” It trained a new generation of Ukrainian spies. The most famous of them is the current head of the president’s office General Kyrill Budanov.

The CIA’s role in the ...