The United States has ceased to transfer intelligence to Ukraine

The United States has ceased to transfer intelligence data to Ukraine. This was announced by the newspaper Financial Times with reference to sources, and later confirmed on the air of the FOX channel, CIA director John Ratcliffe.

On the air of the Mornings with Maria program, Ratcliffe said that the transfer of weapons and intelligence was suspended after the conflict of the White House leader Donald Trump and the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky during a meeting in the oval office.

“Ratcliffe said that he was looking forward to the end of the pause and the resumption of cooperation with Ukraine on the way to the world,” said the words of the CIA director Fox Edward Lawrence.

According to one of the interlocutors of Financial Times, the United States still share intelligence about Russia and Ukraine with its closest allies, including the UK. Washington forbade London to share with Kiev intelligence of the United States, the Daily Mail newspaper said .

On terms of anonymity, the Kiev official told Bloomberg that Ukraine continues to receive intelligence from the United States. According to the Ukrainian interlocutor, Sky News, the suspension from Washington was partial and affected only data that can be used for attacks on the territory of Russia.

Updated (19:00 Moscow time)
Later, the Sky News source said that the entire reconnaissance exchange with the United States was stopped a few hours ago.

As the New European Europe previously said , it will be more difficult for Ukraine to track the launches of Russian missiles and the movement of troops without data from the United States, as well as to bring drones for targets in Russia. This information, as indicated by FT, is really key to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

European allies will probably be able to partially compensate for this gap, but their technical capabilities, especially in the field of satellite observation, are inferior to the American one.

This decision may affect in the near future, in particular, on the battles near Pokrovsky and Toretsk, where Ukrainian forces are counted.

Updated 19:00 Moscow time. The title was changed due to the emergence of new information.