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8-Year CIA Program Helped Provoke Russian Invasion: CIA paramilitaries had been training Ukrainian forces since 2014 pulled out by Biden admin
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 66146032:MV81MDg0NDYyXzkzMTkxNTc5X0JDQTY4RkE0] [quote:CIA 73896718:MV81MDg0NDYyXzIxRDVCRDA1] 8-Year CIA Program Helped Provoke Russian Invasion: Report CIA paramilitaries had been training Ukrainian forces... since 2014 and were only pulled out by the Biden administration last month... https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/8-year-cia-program-helped-provoke-russian-invasion-report CIA paramilitaries had been training Ukrainian forces on the frontlines of the Donbas war against Russian-backed separatists since 2014 and were only pulled out by the Biden administration last month, Yahoo News reported on Wednesday, citing former US officials. The CIA first sent a small number of paramilitaries to eastern Ukraine when the war started in 2014, which was sparked by a US-backed coup in Kyiv and the Donbas separatists declaring independence from the post-coup government. Illustrative image: Sky News As part of the training, CIA paramilitaries taught Ukrainian forces sniper techniques, how to operate US-provided Javelin anti-tank missiles, and how to avoid being tracked on the battlefield by using covert communications and other means. The former officials said at first the CIA was surprised at the capability of Russia and the separatists compared with US adversaries in the Middle East. The US military held similar training programs for Ukrainian forces in western Ukraine that have been publicly acknowledged. In January, Yahoo News revealed that the CIA had also been holding a US-based training program for Ukrainian forces. A former CIA official said the US-based program was training "an insurgency" and taught Ukrainians how to "kill Russians." The secret CIA program in eastern Ukraine was much more provocative than the other training programs since it essentially meant the US was involved in a proxy war on Russia’s border. The former officials told Yahoo News that during the first year of the Trump administration, National Security Officials reviewed the program, which had begun under the Obama administration. [/quote] and NOW you know the rest of the story! [/quote]
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8-Year CIA Program Helped Provoke Russian Invasion: Report
CIA paramilitaries had been training Ukrainian forces... since 2014 and were only pulled out by the Biden administration last month...
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CIA paramilitaries had been training Ukrainian forces on the frontlines of the Donbas war against Russian-backed separatists since 2014 and were only pulled out by the Biden administration last month, Yahoo News reported on Wednesday, citing former US officials.
The CIA first sent a small number of paramilitaries to eastern Ukraine when the war started in 2014, which was sparked by a US-backed coup in Kyiv and the Donbas separatists declaring independence from the post-coup government.
Illustrative image: Sky News
As part of the training, CIA paramilitaries taught Ukrainian forces sniper techniques, how to operate US-provided Javelin anti-tank missiles, and how to avoid being tracked on the battlefield by using covert communications and other means. The former officials said at first the CIA was surprised at the capability of Russia and the separatists compared with US adversaries in the Middle East.
The US military held similar training programs for Ukrainian forces in western Ukraine that have been publicly acknowledged. In January, Yahoo News revealed that the CIA had also been holding a US-based training program for Ukrainian forces. A former CIA official said the US-based program was training "an insurgency" and taught Ukrainians how to "kill Russians."
The secret CIA program in eastern Ukraine was much more provocative than the other training programs since it essentially meant the US was involved in a proxy war on Russia’s border. The former officials told Yahoo News that during the first year of the Trump administration, National Security Officials reviewed the program, which had begun under the Obama administration.
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