Ukrainian officials are trying to prevent the plans from spreading to the battlefield at home and abroad.
Ukraine is keeping details of the spring counter-offensive in an attempt to prevent leaks of confidential information. Politico reported this on May 2, citing anonymous Ukrainian and European sources.
It was noted that against the backdrop of the recent high-profile leak of secret Pentagon documents, Kyiv is preventing information sharing about counter-offensive actions.
“While Ukraine likely shares key intelligence from the US and other European countries that have backed it with arms over the past year, officials at home are working to avoid details related to the planning in battlefield from wide circulation,” said the interlocutors.
According to a Politico source in Ukraine, information about the counteroffensive is also not circulating among Ukrainian officials – “only a few people in the country” know about the plan.
At the same time, the Pentagon stressed that Washington and Kyiv have the same level of information exchange and “there are no signs that Ukraine is hiding something from the United States.”
In addition, the US National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby noted that Ukrainians “are not required to tell us or tell us anything in advance.”
“We’re not focused on whether we get information. We’re focused on making sure they have everything they need when they’re ready to go,” he explained, when asked by NatSec Daily if the White House feared he was being “kept in the dark “.
Other Biden administration officials maintain that Ukraine has never been fully open with the United States about its military plans.
It will be remembered that the head of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, said that Ukraine received all the weapons it requested and was ready for offensive and defense.
Blinken estimated the duration of the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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Source: korrespondent
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