Fast food from the American secret military partnership with Ukraine

The war in Ukraine is at a turning point, where President Trump is seeking a rapprochement with the Russian leader, Vladimir F. Putin, pressure on the end of the fighting.

But nearly three years ago before Mr. Trump returned to power, the United States and Ukraine joined an extraordinary partnership of intelligence, strategy, planning and technology that its development and internal work were not known only to a small circle of American officials and allies.

With a noticeable transparency, the Pentagon made a public accounting of $ 66.5 billion in the weapons it provided to Ukraine. But a New York Times investigation It reveals that America’s participation in the war was much deeper than previously understood. The secret partnership directed the battle strategy with large images and transformed the accurate information of targeting to the Ukrainian soldiers in this field.

Here are five fast food from the investigation.

An American base in Wiesbaden, Germany, and the Ukrainians presented the coordinates of the Russian forces on their soil.

The idea behind the partnership was that America’s close cooperation with Ukraine would compensate for the enormous advantages of Russia in the workforce and weapons. To direct the Ukrainians while deploying their advanced arsenal, the Americans created a process called Task Force Dragon.

The secret center of the partnership was at the US Army garrison in Wespron, Germany. Every morning, American and Ukrainian military officers have put priorities targeting – Russian units or parts of equipment or infrastructure. American intelligence officers and coalitions searched satellite images, radio emissions and communications that were intercepted to find Russian sites. Then the Ukrainian Dragon Dragon gave the coordinates so that they could shoot them.

Military officials are concerned that it may be provocative inappropriate to summon the targets. Instead, “attention points” were referred to.

American intelligence and artillery helped Ukraine to turn the tide against the Russian invasion quickly.

In the spring of 2022, the Biden Administration agreed to send high -mobility artillery systems, or HIMARS, which used satellite -guided missiles for 50 miles.

In the first year of the war, the Ukrainians were largely dependent on the Americans for intelligence, the work squad examined and supervised every strike in each hydar.

The strikes caused the high rates of Russian injuries, and the Ukraine’s anti-202 attack was largely successful: by December, the Ukrainians, David-David, the upper Supreme Higher, held against their Russian enemy.

The Biden Administration continued to move its red lines.

From the first, administration officials have sought a red line: America did not fight Russia; It was helping Ukraine. However, they are concerned about taking the steps taken to accomplish and which may raise Mr. Putin to attack NATO goals or may provide his nuclear threats. Although the administration has always been tolerant of the risks to help Ukraine to meet the advanced threat, many more provocative steps have been taken.

• Reducing the ban on American shoes on Ukrainian ground, it was allowed to put about ten military advisers in Kiev. To avoid attracting the audience’s attention to their presence, the Pentagon initially called them “subject experts”. Later, the team was expanded, to about three dozens, and military advisers were finally allowed to travel to the positions of Ukrainian leadership near the fighting.

• In 2022, the US Navy was designed with the participation of information about Ukrainian drones on warships that exceed the territorial waters of the Russian Crimea Peninsula. The Central Intelligence Agency was allowed to support Ukrainian operations inside Crimea water; In that fall, the Spying Agency helped Ukrainian drone hitting Russian warships in the port of Sevastopol.

• In January 2024, American and Ukrainian military officers in Wespaden jointly planned a campaign-using long-range missiles offered by the coalition, along with Ukrainian drones-to attack about 100 Russian military targets via the Crimea. The campaign, named “The Moon Operation”, has been largely forcing the Russians to pull the equipment, facilities and forces in the Crimea to the Russian main mainland.

In the end, the US Army and the CIA were allowed to help strikes in Russia.

The most difficult red line was the Russian border. But in the spring of 2024, to protect the northern city of Kharkif against a Russian attack, the administration allowed the establishment of the “OPS Fund” – a region of Russian territory that US officials in Weshbaden can provide them with the Ukrainians with accurate coordinates. The first repetition of the fund spread through a wide range of the northern border in Ukraine. The fund was expanded after North Korea sent forces to help fight the incursion of Ukrainians in the Russian Kursk region. The American army later allowed missile strikes in a region of southern Russia, where the Russians organized forces and equipment for their attack in eastern Ukraine.

The long policy has prevented CIA from providing intelligence on goals on Russian soil. But CIA can require “differences”, publishing periods to support strikes to achieve specific goals. Intelligence has set a vast ammunition depot in Toropets, 290 miles north of the Ukrainian border. On September 18, 2024, a drone was criticized in the ammunition depot. Open the explosion, strong like a small earthquake, a football playground hole. Later, the CIA was allowed to enable Ukrainian drones in southern Russia to attempt to slow progress in eastern Ukraine.

Political differences in Ukraine contributed to the collapse of the anti -2023 attack.

The 2023 counter -attack was supposed to be the construction of momentum after the first year victories. But after the partners held the war matches in Wespron and agreed to a strategy, the plan was heading to Ukrainian policy.

The head of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, General Valery Zaluzni, adopted the plan, which was an attack in the direction of the southern city of Militopol, which would cut Russian supply lines. But his opponent and subordinate, Colonel General Olikander Serski, had his own plan – to prove the Russian forces in the occupied eastern city of Khamout. Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinsky, He stood with him and the ammunition and forces divided between two main fronts instead of one. The Ukrainians never recovered Khumut, and within months, the counter -attack ended with failure. Russia now had the upper hand.