Ukraine isn’t happy with U.S. view of counteroffensive
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If you thought Ukraine would be unhappy that the U.S. privately believes its counteroffensive won’t be a big success, then congratulations — you’re right.
Senior Ukrainian officials are upset by a leaked “top secret” assessment from February suggesting Ukraine would make only “modest territorial gains” from its planned operation. The Washington Post, which reported the document on Monday, said it was part of the growing leak of classified U.S. intelligence on the war in Ukraine, China, Israel and other global hotspots.
Kyiv says the document shows the U.S. is once again underestimating its military’s capabilities.
“The same people who said Kyiv would fall in three days are now leaking harmful and equally ridiculous information ahead of an offensive critically important for the entire free world,” said a person in regular contact with senior officials in Kyiv.
“There are some people who continue to be hesitant” about Ukraine’s military chances in the counteroffensive, a Ukrainian defense official said, “but we’ve proved everybody wrong.” The projections of Ukraine’s chances are “not the truth,” this official continued. “It gives us grounds for suspicion” of just how seriously the U.S. backs Ukraine’s objectives of fully pushing Russia out of the country.
That sentiment is widespread within the Ukrainian government, per another person with similar high-level contacts in Kyiv. All three people were granted anonymity to detail sensitive internal deliberations in Ukraine.
The comments make clear that the United States and Ukraine aren’t as in sync as both countries claim 14 months into the war. It could also portend less trust between Washington and Kyiv ahead of a crucial few months of fighting that could dictate the course of the war with Russia. With Russia in control of 20 percent of Ukrainian territory, the hope is that the counteroffensive, even with dwindling supplies, will force Moscow’s troops and mercenaries out of the country they invaded.
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If you thought Ukraine would be unhappy that the U.S. privately believes its counteroffensive won’t be a big success, then congratulations — you’re right.
Senior Ukrainian officials are upset by a leaked “top secret” assessment from February suggesting Ukraine would make only “modest territorial gains” from its planned operation. The Washington Post, which reported the document on Monday, said it was part of the growing leak of classified U.S. intelligence on the war in Ukraine, China, Israel and other global hotspots.
Kyiv says the document shows the U.S. is once again underestimating its military’s capabilities.
“The same people who said Kyiv would fall in three days are now leaking harmful and equally ridiculous information ahead of an offensive critically important for the entire free world,” said a person in regular contact with senior officials in Kyiv.
“There are some people who continue to be hesitant” about Ukraine’s military chances in the counteroffensive, a Ukrainian defense official said, “but we’ve proved everybody wrong.” The projections of Ukraine’s chances are “not the truth,” this official continued. “It gives us grounds for suspicion” of just how seriously the U.S. backs Ukraine’s objectives of fully pushing Russia out of the country.
That sentiment is widespread within the Ukrainian government, per another person with similar high-level contacts in Kyiv. All three people were granted anonymity to detail sensitive internal deliberations in Ukraine.
The comments make clear that the United States and Ukraine aren’t as in sync as both countries claim 14 months into the war. It could also portend less trust between Washington and Kyiv ahead of a crucial few months of fighting that could dictate the course of the war with Russia. With Russia in control of 20 percent of Ukrainian territory, the hope is that the counteroffensive, even with dwindling supplies, will force Moscow’s troops and mercenaries out of the country they invaded.
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Ukraine isn’t happy with U.S. view of counteroffensive
Senior Ukrainian officials are upset by a leaked “top secret” assessment from February suggesting Ukraine would make only “modest territorial gains” from its planned operation.
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No Russia-Ukraine peace talks expected this year, U.S. leak shows
The war is expected to spill into 2024 with neither side notching victory and both refusing to negotiate, U.S. intelligence officials surmise
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The grinding war between Ukraine and Russia is expected to bleed into 2024 with neither side securing victory yet both refusing to negotiate an end to the conflict, according to a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that is among the highly sensitive U.S. government materials leaked online and obtained by The Washington Post.
The analysis concludes that, even if Ukraine recaptures “significant” amounts of territory and inflicts “unsustainable losses on Russian forces,” an outcome U.S. intelligence finds unlikely, the nation’s gains would not lead to peace talks.
“Negotiations to end the conflict are unlikely during 2023 in all considered scenarios,” says the document, which has not been disclosed previously.
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The war is expected to spill into 2024 with neither side notching victory and both refusing to negotiate, U.S. intelligence officials surmise
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The grinding war between Ukraine and Russia is expected to bleed into 2024 with neither side securing victory yet both refusing to negotiate an end to the conflict, according to a Defense Intelligence Agency assessment that is among the highly sensitive U.S. government materials leaked online and obtained by The Washington Post.
The analysis concludes that, even if Ukraine recaptures “significant” amounts of territory and inflicts “unsustainable losses on Russian forces,” an outcome U.S. intelligence finds unlikely, the nation’s gains would not lead to peace talks.
“Negotiations to end the conflict are unlikely during 2023 in all considered scenarios,” says the document, which has not been disclosed previously.
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Leaker of U.S. secret documents worked on military base, friend says
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The man behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets that has exposed spying on allies, revealed the grim prospects for Ukraine’s war with Russia and ignited diplomatic fires for the White House is a young, charismatic gun enthusiast who shared highly classified documents with a group of far-flung acquaintances searching for companionship amid the isolation of the pandemic.
United by their mutual love of guns, military gear and God, the group of roughly two dozen — mostly men and boys — formed an invitation-only clubhouse in 2020 on Discord, an online platform popular with gamers. But they paid little attention last year when the man some call “OG” posted a message laden with strange acronyms and jargon. The words were unfamiliar, and few people read the long note, one of the members explained. But he revered OG, the elder leader of their tiny tribe, who claimed to know secrets that the government withheld from ordinary people.
The young member read OG’s message closely, and the hundreds more that he said followed on a regular basis for months. They were, he recalled, what appeared to be near-verbatim transcripts of classified intelligence documents that OG indicated he had brought home from his job on a “military base,” which the member declined to identify. OG claimed he spent at least some of his day inside a secure facility that prohibited cellphones and other electronic devices, which could be used to document the secret information housed on government computer networks or spooling out from printers. He annotated some of the hand-typed documents, the member said, translating arcane intel-speak for the uninitiated, such as explaining that “NOFORN” meant the information in the document was so sensitive it must not be shared with foreign nationals.
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The man behind a massive leak of U.S. government secrets that has exposed spying on allies, revealed the grim prospects for Ukraine’s war with Russia and ignited diplomatic fires for the White House is a young, charismatic gun enthusiast who shared highly classified documents with a group of far-flung acquaintances searching for companionship amid the isolation of the pandemic.
United by their mutual love of guns, military gear and God, the group of roughly two dozen — mostly men and boys — formed an invitation-only clubhouse in 2020 on Discord, an online platform popular with gamers. But they paid little attention last year when the man some call “OG” posted a message laden with strange acronyms and jargon. The words were unfamiliar, and few people read the long note, one of the members explained. But he revered OG, the elder leader of their tiny tribe, who claimed to know secrets that the government withheld from ordinary people.
The young member read OG’s message closely, and the hundreds more that he said followed on a regular basis for months. They were, he recalled, what appeared to be near-verbatim transcripts of classified intelligence documents that OG indicated he had brought home from his job on a “military base,” which the member declined to identify. OG claimed he spent at least some of his day inside a secure facility that prohibited cellphones and other electronic devices, which could be used to document the secret information housed on government computer networks or spooling out from printers. He annotated some of the hand-typed documents, the member said, translating arcane intel-speak for the uninitiated, such as explaining that “NOFORN” meant the information in the document was so sensitive it must not be shared with foreign nationals.
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The Russian Armed Forces hit the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Donetsk direction with thermite shells
DONETSK, April 13 — RIA Novosti. The Russian armed forces hit the firing position of the Ukrainian military in the Donetsk direction with the help of thermite shells, the video came into the possession of RIA Novosti.
The combat incendiary mixture ignites when burst and reaches a combustion temperature of 2300-2700 degrees. This is the most common type of incendiary weapon, which allows you to hit the enemy both in open areas and in cover. The main damaging factor of incendiary weapons is thermal energy. Such projectiles cause a fire that cannot be extinguished.
This weapon is paired with the Grad multiple launch rocket system.
According to the Ministry of Defense, over the past day, Russian troops defeated Ukrainian formations in the Donetsk, Kupyansk, Krasnolimansk, South-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson directions.
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DONETSK, April 13 — RIA Novosti. The Russian armed forces hit the firing position of the Ukrainian military in the Donetsk direction with the help of thermite shells, the video came into the possession of RIA Novosti.
The combat incendiary mixture ignites when burst and reaches a combustion temperature of 2300-2700 degrees. This is the most common type of incendiary weapon, which allows you to hit the enemy both in open areas and in cover. The main damaging factor of incendiary weapons is thermal energy. Such projectiles cause a fire that cannot be extinguished.
This weapon is paired with the Grad multiple launch rocket system.
According to the Ministry of Defense, over the past day, Russian troops defeated Ukrainian formations in the Donetsk, Kupyansk, Krasnolimansk, South-Donetsk, Zaporozhye and Kherson directions.
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Arestovich bursts with an analysis of the situation with the Ukrainian counteroffensive:
“The Armed Forces of Ukraine are 90% ready for a counteroffensive. They are so bleedingly annoying with their whining, this Western press. Especially the Washington Post, whining and whining, everything is always wrong for them, everything is bad for them, crookedly askew. The main obstacle to the counter-offensive is not some kind of "leaks", but the endless rains falling in Ukraine. For the tank to leave, it needs 30 centimetres of soil that has dried through to the state of concrete. This is at least two to three weeks of sunny weather. It's a long story, and only the weather holds,” he said.
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“The Armed Forces of Ukraine are 90% ready for a counteroffensive. They are so bleedingly annoying with their whining, this Western press. Especially the Washington Post, whining and whining, everything is always wrong for them, everything is bad for them, crookedly askew. The main obstacle to the counter-offensive is not some kind of "leaks", but the endless rains falling in Ukraine. For the tank to leave, it needs 30 centimetres of soil that has dried through to the state of concrete. This is at least two to three weeks of sunny weather. It's a long story, and only the weather holds,” he said.
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Do you speak English? Where are you from? From Georgia?
A blogger from Dublin (Ireland) decided to talk to Ukrainian refugees who receive assistance in a social center but, as it turned out, none of these people not only do not speak English, but are not Ukrainian either.
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❗️Iran launched a parade of 2,700 ships in the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea in support of the Palestinian people. All vessels, escorted by the largest warships, will then head for the Strait of Hormuz, which will lead to its blockage.
Now up to 20% of all world oil goes through the strait. Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz for EU ships in January of this year, in December it was proposed to block it for all countries that supported the protests in the Islamic Republic.
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Now up to 20% of all world oil goes through the strait. Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz for EU ships in January of this year, in December it was proposed to block it for all countries that supported the protests in the Islamic Republic.
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In Romania, a column of new Turkish Otokar Cobra II armored vehicles for the Ukrainian Armed Forces was filmed on video.
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Maduro sent to hell the representative of the US State Department after the threat to tighten sanctions
MEXICO CITY, April 14 — RIA Novosti. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has invited a US State Department official to go to hell in response to US government threats published in the media to increase sanctions against his country. The head of state stated this on the air of Venezolana de Televisión.
Earlier, Europa Press, citing a State Department spokesman, said that the United States reserves the right to tighten restrictive measures if the process of dialogue with the opposition does not move forward, and repression intensifies. The material appeared after Juan Guaido's statement about his possible arrest.
"The Gringo Representative has issued threats to Venezuela that if Venezuela does not move forward in political dialogue with the gangster, corrupt and home-trading sector of the Unitary Platform, they will retaliate and impose sanctions against our country. I suggest this Gringo representative to go to hell, because Venezuela is respected", Maduro stressed.
According to him, the Bolivarian government does not accept threats from Washington. Maduro pointed out that Venezuela, through its own efforts, overcame the sanctions barriers.
The opposition at the end of 2022 voted for the liquidation of the "interim government" of Juan Guaido, and he himself left the post of speaker of the opposition parliament. Leaders of movements that disagreed with Maduro said that the dissolution of the interim government was overdue as the structure weakened and ceased to function.
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MEXICO CITY, April 14 — RIA Novosti. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has invited a US State Department official to go to hell in response to US government threats published in the media to increase sanctions against his country. The head of state stated this on the air of Venezolana de Televisión.
Earlier, Europa Press, citing a State Department spokesman, said that the United States reserves the right to tighten restrictive measures if the process of dialogue with the opposition does not move forward, and repression intensifies. The material appeared after Juan Guaido's statement about his possible arrest.
"The Gringo Representative has issued threats to Venezuela that if Venezuela does not move forward in political dialogue with the gangster, corrupt and home-trading sector of the Unitary Platform, they will retaliate and impose sanctions against our country. I suggest this Gringo representative to go to hell, because Venezuela is respected", Maduro stressed.
According to him, the Bolivarian government does not accept threats from Washington. Maduro pointed out that Venezuela, through its own efforts, overcame the sanctions barriers.
The opposition at the end of 2022 voted for the liquidation of the "interim government" of Juan Guaido, and he himself left the post of speaker of the opposition parliament. Leaders of movements that disagreed with Maduro said that the dissolution of the interim government was overdue as the structure weakened and ceased to function.
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Мадуро послал к черту представителя Госдепа США
Президент Венесуэлы Николас Мадуро предложил представителю Госдепа США отправиться к черту в ответ на опубликованные в СМИ угрозы американского правительства... РИА Новости, 14.04.2023
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Ukrainian orchestra’s key members refused visas to play in UK
Promoter claims ‘catastrophe’ has cost it more than £88k and accuses British government of hypocrisy
Key members of a Ukrainian state orchestra were refused visas to play a series of concerts in the UK this month in a “catastrophe” that the promoter claims cost it more than €100,000 (£88,000).
The Khmelnitsky Orchestra was due to tour the UK this month with two shows: The Magical Music of Harry Potter, and The Music From the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Rings of Power.
The shows had been promoted on the UK government website as an example of British-Ukrainian relations. After the orchestra played the Harry Potter show in Belgium last year, the deputy British ambassador in Brussels, Chloe Louter, hailed it as “an incredible honour to have such an iconic part of British culture being performed by a Ukrainian orchestra”.
The promoter, Star Entertainment, has accused the UK government of hypocrisy.
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Promoter claims ‘catastrophe’ has cost it more than £88k and accuses British government of hypocrisy
Key members of a Ukrainian state orchestra were refused visas to play a series of concerts in the UK this month in a “catastrophe” that the promoter claims cost it more than €100,000 (£88,000).
The Khmelnitsky Orchestra was due to tour the UK this month with two shows: The Magical Music of Harry Potter, and The Music From the Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Rings of Power.
The shows had been promoted on the UK government website as an example of British-Ukrainian relations. After the orchestra played the Harry Potter show in Belgium last year, the deputy British ambassador in Brussels, Chloe Louter, hailed it as “an incredible honour to have such an iconic part of British culture being performed by a Ukrainian orchestra”.
The promoter, Star Entertainment, has accused the UK government of hypocrisy.
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Ukrainian orchestra’s key members refused visas to play in UK
Promoter claims ‘catastrophe’ has cost it more than £88k and accuses British government of hypocrisy
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Hungarian Prime Minister Orban called Ukraine a financially non-existent country
BUDAPEST, April 14 — RIA Novosti. The conflict in Ukraine will end as soon as the US and Europe stop supporting it, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Kossuth radio.
“In fact, Ukraine is financially a non-existent country. The decline in economic indicators is huge, which is completely understandable because of the war. It is obvious that Ukraine cannot finance itself,” he said.
According to the Prime Minister, the question is whether the West contains Ukraine.
"And the moment America and Europe say no to that question, the war will be over," he said.
Orban stressed that Europe spends tens of billions of dollars on the maintenance of Ukraine: it pays for Ukrainian pensions, maintains state institutions, healthcare, and education.
"And these are huge sums, several tens of billions of euros, which the European economy lacks. And it is obvious that this cannot continue indefinitely," the Hungarian leader added.
He also noted that Hungary also participates in the financing of Ukraine through the EU's common budgets, but despite this, the situation of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia is constantly deteriorating.
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BUDAPEST, April 14 — RIA Novosti. The conflict in Ukraine will end as soon as the US and Europe stop supporting it, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Kossuth radio.
“In fact, Ukraine is financially a non-existent country. The decline in economic indicators is huge, which is completely understandable because of the war. It is obvious that Ukraine cannot finance itself,” he said.
According to the Prime Minister, the question is whether the West contains Ukraine.
"And the moment America and Europe say no to that question, the war will be over," he said.
Orban stressed that Europe spends tens of billions of dollars on the maintenance of Ukraine: it pays for Ukrainian pensions, maintains state institutions, healthcare, and education.
"And these are huge sums, several tens of billions of euros, which the European economy lacks. And it is obvious that this cannot continue indefinitely," the Hungarian leader added.
He also noted that Hungary also participates in the financing of Ukraine through the EU's common budgets, but despite this, the situation of the Hungarian minority in Transcarpathia is constantly deteriorating.
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Орбан назвал Украину несуществующей в финансовом плане страной
Конфликт на Украине закончится, как только США и Европа прекратят ее содержать, заявил премьер-министр Венгрии Виктор Орбан в эфире радио Kossuth. РИА Новости, 14.04.2023
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He’s from a patriotic family — and allegedly leaked U.S. secrets
Online, the suspect in the breach of dozens of classified documents took on a persona seemingly at odds with his military career
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As a newly minted member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard returned home from training, his mother took to her flower shop’s Facebook page to express pride in his accomplishments.
“Jack is on his way home today, tech school complete, ready to start his career in the Air National Guard!” said the post, dated June 3, 2021. It was accompanied by a photograph of a patriotic-themed balloon tied to a mailbox and emblazoned, “Welcome home!”
Patriotic zeal appeared common around Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, 21, who had followed in the footsteps of numerous family members to join the military. Teixeira, slim and boyish in photographs taken in his blue dress uniform, had been assigned to manage and troubleshoot computers and communications systems for the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, according to the Air Force.
Investigators now think there’s a more troubling, reckless side to Teixeira — and the fallout is only beginning.
FBI agents clad in body armor and carrying rifles swept across the Teixeira family residence in Dighton, Mass., on Thursday, arresting Teixeira and charging him with unauthorized removal of classified national defense information, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in brief remarks at the Justice Department. Video captured by news helicopters circling over the family home showed him at one point holding his hands behind his head under the watch of law enforcement personnel, before he was led away while wearing red athletic shorts and a T-shirt.
Teixeira has been identified as the suspected leaker of hundreds of photographs of highly classified military documents that have proliferated across the internet over the past week. The leak, probably the military’s largest in at least a decade, has revealed secrets about everything from gaps in Ukrainian air defenses to the specifics of how the United States spies on its allies and partners.
Teixeira, who used online handles that include “jackthedripper” and “excalibureffect,” posted the images to Discord, a chat platform popular with gamers, people familiar with the case said. Some Discord members showed The Washington Post video of Teixeira shouting racist and antisemitic slurs before firing a rifle. Like some others interviewed for this story, they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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Online, the suspect in the breach of dozens of classified documents took on a persona seemingly at odds with his military career
The Washington Post
As a newly minted member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard returned home from training, his mother took to her flower shop’s Facebook page to express pride in his accomplishments.
“Jack is on his way home today, tech school complete, ready to start his career in the Air National Guard!” said the post, dated June 3, 2021. It was accompanied by a photograph of a patriotic-themed balloon tied to a mailbox and emblazoned, “Welcome home!”
Patriotic zeal appeared common around Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, 21, who had followed in the footsteps of numerous family members to join the military. Teixeira, slim and boyish in photographs taken in his blue dress uniform, had been assigned to manage and troubleshoot computers and communications systems for the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base, according to the Air Force.
Investigators now think there’s a more troubling, reckless side to Teixeira — and the fallout is only beginning.
FBI agents clad in body armor and carrying rifles swept across the Teixeira family residence in Dighton, Mass., on Thursday, arresting Teixeira and charging him with unauthorized removal of classified national defense information, Attorney General Merrick Garland said in brief remarks at the Justice Department. Video captured by news helicopters circling over the family home showed him at one point holding his hands behind his head under the watch of law enforcement personnel, before he was led away while wearing red athletic shorts and a T-shirt.
Teixeira has been identified as the suspected leaker of hundreds of photographs of highly classified military documents that have proliferated across the internet over the past week. The leak, probably the military’s largest in at least a decade, has revealed secrets about everything from gaps in Ukrainian air defenses to the specifics of how the United States spies on its allies and partners.
Teixeira, who used online handles that include “jackthedripper” and “excalibureffect,” posted the images to Discord, a chat platform popular with gamers, people familiar with the case said. Some Discord members showed The Washington Post video of Teixeira shouting racist and antisemitic slurs before firing a rifle. Like some others interviewed for this story, they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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