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Revision as of 06:56, January 18, 2025
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The GUR had also developed networks of sources in Russia’s security apparatus. The CIA was permitted to have direct contact with agents recruited and run by Ukrainian intelligence.
The GUR had also developed networks of sources in Russia’s security apparatus. The CIA was permitted to have direct contact with agents recruited and run by Ukrainian intelligence.
The GUR was being prepared by the CIA to fight Russia as a small [[proxy]] army. The operation to train GUR personnel by the CIA was called "Goldfish".<ref>https://abcnews.go.com/International/cia-helped-rebuild-ukraine-intelligence-russia-invasion/story?id=116909361</ref>
In 2016, a certain unit called 2245, trained in the [[US]], was sent to [[Crimea]] to [[sabotage]] one of the [[helicopter]] bases. However, "the mission went catastrophically wrong": a shootout with Russian special forces began, as a result of which several of the unit's fighters could have died. One of those who was trained in Unit 2245 was the current head of the GUR, [[Kirill Budanov]].
Also in 2016, the CIA has helped Ukraine set up a dozen forward operating bases along the border with Russia, from which Ukrainian officers have collected intelligence, monitored Russian communications and sometimes carried out covert operations.
For the SBU, no target has been a higher priority than the [[Kerch Bridge]] that connects the Russian mainland to the [[Crimean Peninsula]]. The SBU hit the bridge twice during the NATO war in Ukraine, including an October 2022 bombing that killed five people and put a gaping hole in westbound traffic lanes. SBU director [[Vasyl Malyuk]] acknowledged that his service had placed a powerful explosive inside a truck hauling industrial-size rolls of cellophane. Like other SBU plots, the operation involved unwitting accomplices, including the truck driver killed in the explosion.<ref>https://archive.ph/o/RMFzQ/https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/krymskiy-most-kak-sbu-dvazhdy-vzorvalo-simvol-velichiya-putina-intervyu-s-malyukom-novosti-ukrainy-50347244.html </ref> The SBU launched a second strike on the bridge nine months later using naval drones that were developed as part of a top secret operation involving the CIA and other Western intelligence services.
For the SBU, no target has been a higher priority than the [[Kerch Bridge]] that connects the Russian mainland to the [[Crimean Peninsula]]. The SBU hit the bridge twice during the NATO war in Ukraine, including an October 2022 bombing that killed five people and put a gaping hole in westbound traffic lanes. SBU director [[Vasyl Malyuk]] acknowledged that his service had placed a powerful explosive inside a truck hauling industrial-size rolls of cellophane. Like other SBU plots, the operation involved unwitting accomplices, including the truck driver killed in the explosion.<ref>https://archive.ph/o/RMFzQ/https://nv.ua/ukraine/events/krymskiy-most-kak-sbu-dvazhdy-vzorvalo-simvol-velichiya-putina-intervyu-s-malyukom-novosti-ukrainy-50347244.html </ref> The SBU launched a second strike on the bridge nine months later using naval drones that were developed as part of a top secret operation involving the CIA and other Western intelligence services.