According to NBC, U.S. intelligence was used to sink the flagship of the Russian Navy. However, the United States did not take part in the decision to carry out the attack.
6.5. 05:10 • Updated 6.5. 05:14
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NBC: The intelligence that led to the sinking of the flagship Moscow came from the United States
News channel NBC (switch to another service)According to the Russian Navy, the intelligence that led to the sinking of the flagship of the Russian Navy came from the United States. Ukrainian troops sank Moscow with missiles last month.
According to NBC sources, the Ukrainians had spotted a warship in the Black Sea and asked the United States to confirm that it was indeed Moscow. After receiving confirmation and additional information about the ship’s location, Ukrainian forces hit the ship with anti-naval missiles.
However, according to sources interviewed by NBC, the United States was unaware of Ukraine’s decision to strike the ship in advance.
According to media reports, intelligence shared by the United States has helped Ukraine kill high-ranking Russian commanders, among other things. Spokesman for the Pentagon John Kirby said on Thursday that the United States will not care about the location of commanders on the battlefield or participate in Ukrainian military decisions on the targets of the attacks.
“Ukraine combines with its own intelligence the information we and other partners provide them, and they make their own decisions and act independently,” Kirby said.
Ukrainian President Zelenskyi: Russia has fired more than 2,000 missiles at Ukraine
Russia has fired more than 2,000 missiles at Ukraine during an attack that began in late February, the Ukrainian president said. Volodymyr Zelenskyi in his speech (you switch to another service) late Thursday.
In addition, Zelenskyi said that Russian military planes entered Ukrainian airspace almost 2,700 times.
Zelenskyi said the Russians have destroyed or damaged nearly 400 health-related items. These include hospitals, maternity clinics and health centers.
Former Brazilian president’s comments on Ukraine’s war “Russian attempts to distort the truth”
Former President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvan Comments from Time magazine in an interview are “Russian attempts to distort the truth,” said an adviser to the president of Ukraine Mykhailo Podolyak On Twitter on Thursday.
In an interview released Wednesday, Lula claims, among other things, the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky be as guilty of war as Vladimir Putin. According to Lula, the United States and the European Union should also have consulted with Putin before the war began and announced that Ukraine would not become a member of NATO.
According to Podolyak, the cause of the war is not on the shoulders of Ukraine or the West, but Russia “cunningly attacked Ukraine […] in the War of Destruction and Conquest “.