More Evidence: Ukraine Commander Says Western Intelligence Was Behind Kursk Attack

More Evidence: Ukraine Commander Says Western Intelligence Was Behind Kursk Attack

Dave DeCamp

The US has denied that it was involved in the planning of the invasion but has offered strong support by allowing Ukrainian forces to use US-provided armored vehicles, missiles, and bombs.Ukraine is now pushing hard for the US to allow its weapons to be used for long-range strikes. Earlier this week the Pentagon repeated its same official line:

During a news conference on Tuesday, Pentagon Press Secretary Major General Patrick Ryder was asked whether the U.S. would reconsider its restrictions on Ukraine’s use of American-supplied missiles.

“You’ve heard us say that the Ukrainians can use U.S. security assistance to defend themselves from cross-border attacks, in other words counterfire,” Ryder said. “But as it relates to long-range strike, deep strikes into Russia, our policy has not changed.”

The Ukrainian soldier, who was described as a spokesman for a Ukrainian brigade, suggested one purpose of the invasion of Kursk was to demoralize the Russian civilian population.

“We should not forget about the moral and psychological factor of the Russian civilian population,” he said. “Our operation was planned both tactically and as a move to demoralize the enemy.”

While the fighting continues in Kursk, Russian forces are making steady gains in the Donbas and moving more rapidly toward the Donetsk city of Pokrovsk.

Western intel key to Kiev’s Russia incursion plan – US spy chief. Ukraine has access to a trove of commercial satellite images, according to the head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), commented on Thursday regarding a report last week by The New York Times that said the US and Britain “have provided Ukraine with satellite imagery and other information” on Kursk Region. Kiev sent thousands of heavily-armed troops into the area earlier this month.

Whitworth suggested that Times sources were referring to commercial satellite imagery, which the US has been giving Ukraine access to for years via Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD), a portal operated by the space firm Maxar. ”There were over 400,000 accounts in that particular portal. And so the availability of commercial imagery is sustained,” he said at a panel discussion hosted by the Intelligence and National Security Alliance.