🚨NYT: Since 2014, the CIA has waged a covert war against Russia by building 12 covert spies bases in Ukraine. 🧐

They couldn't keep this hidden forever, especially when things are all falling apart now in DC.

For the past ten years, the US has been employing Ukraine in an information collection operation.

According to a story that The New York Times published on Sunday, US intelligence not only helped Ukraine make decisions throughout the conflict, but it also built and funded sophisticated command-and-control surveillance centers, and it was doing so even before the Russian invasion in February 2022.

The initiative, which covers the administrations of three separate US presidents, was started ten years ago.

The Times said that these intelligence collecting efforts may be in jeopardy if the US did not provide Ukraine's military effort more funds.

The former Soviet state and its capabilities have been "transformed" by the CIA initiative to modernize Ukraine's intelligence agencies, according to the New York Times, making it one of Washington's most significant intelligence partners against the Kremlin today.

According to Zero Hedge, the organization has been covertly training and arming Ukrainian intelligence operatives since shortly after the Maidan coup in 2014. It has also been building a network of 12 covert facilities along the Russian border, a project that started eight years ago.

These intelligence stations are used to launch and track cross-border drone and missile assaults against Russian territory. From these locations, Russian commanders' communications may be intercepted and Russian spy satellites can be tracked.

This implies that the world has moved one step closer to World War III with the revelation of the long-kept “closely guarded secret,” as it indicates that the CIA is primarily to blame for the success of the most recent wave of attacks, which included direct drone strikes on important energy infrastructure and oil refineries.

Ivan Bakanov, the former chief of the SBU, Ukraine's internal intelligence agency, stated that "there would have been no way for us to resist the Russians, or to beat them] without them [the CIA and elite commandoes it's trained]."

One of the primary sources of the NYT revelations—information that may not surprise anybody who have never been so gullible as to accept the mainstream, "official" version of events—is a senior intelligence officer by the name of Gen. Serhii Dvoretskiy.

It is obvious that Kiev and Washington now want the public to be aware of the close intelligence ties they have attempted to hide for the previous ten years. At a time when Ukraine's soldiers are retreating, this may be seen as a form of message to Moscow that the US is fighting alongside the Ukrainians.

However, the information disclosed in the NY Times article also supports President Putin's specific accusations made against Washington from the beginning.

Here are seven of the most significant disclosures from the lengthy NYT piece, which is rich with new information and proof of the CIA's long-standing involvement in Ukraine.

A description of the covert intelligence bunker

The article includes an incredibly thorough account of one of the CIA's "secret" subterranean command centers located close to the Russian border. location to be given, naturally:

Not far away, a discreet passageway descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov.

The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military.

There is also one more secret: The base is almost fully financed, and partly equipped, by the CIA.

Elite commando force

Two years after the coup in Ukraine in 2014, which was supported by the West, the CIA established a training program for top Ukrainian operatives:

Around 2016, the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force — known as Unit 2245 — which captured Russian drones and communications gear so that CIA technicians could reverse-engineer them and crack Moscow’s encryption systems. (One officer in the unit was Kyrylo Budanov, now the general leading Ukraine’s military intelligence.)

And the CIA also helped train a new generation of Ukrainian spies who operated inside Russia, across Europe, and in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence.

Ukraine transformed into an “intelligence-gathering hub”

The fact is that the US intelligence network in Ukraine, which is also equivalent to the NATO intelligence network, is far more expansive than almost all previous media conjecture has suggested. Washington and its allies have used Ukraine as a vast "intelligence gathering hub" for a long time:

In more than 200 interviews, current and former officials in Ukraine, the United States and Europe described a partnership that nearly foundered from mutual distrust before it steadily expanded, turning Ukraine into an intelligence-gathering hub that intercepted more Russian communications than the CIA station in Kyiv, Ukraine, could initially handle. Many of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence and matters of sensitive diplomacy.

Now these intelligence networks are more important than ever, as Russia is on the offensive and Ukraine is more dependent on sabotage and long-range missile strikes that require spies far behind enemy lines. And they are increasingly at risk: If Republicans in Congress end military funding to Kyiv, the CIA may have to scale back.

Huge NYT admission that Putin was basically right

An extremely ironic passage from the Times piece is seen here. The first thing to note in this part is that Putin has constantly accused the US-NATO of extending its military and espionage network into Ukraine. This was acknowledged to have been happening over the previous ten years, and the Kremlin even cited it as a major factor in the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. On the eve of the invasion, Putin and his officials insisted that NATO was militarizing Ukraine. The Times seems to be acknowledging now that this was, in fact, the case:

Putin has long blamed Western intelligence agencies for manipulating Kyiv and sowing anti-Russia sentiment in Ukraine.

Toward the end of 2021, according to a senior European official, Putin was weighing whether to launch his full-scale invasion when he met with the head of one of Russia’s main spy services, who told him that the CIA, together with Britain’s MI6, were controlling Ukraine and turning it into a beachhead for operations against Moscow.

…U.S. officials were often reluctant to fully engage, fearing that Ukrainian officials could not be trusted, and worrying about provoking the Kremlin.Yet a tight circle of Ukrainian intelligence officials assiduously courted the CIA and gradually made themselves vital to the Americans. In 2015, Gen. Valeriy Kondratiuk, then Ukraine’s head of military intelligence, arrived at a meeting with the CIA’s deputy station chief and without warning handed over a stack of top-secret files.

2014 Coup… and Crimea

The report makes oblique mention to this crucial time that led to the terrible collision between Russia and Ukraine:
With violence escalating, an unmarked U.S. government plane touched down at an airport in Kyiv carrying John Brennan, then the director of the CIA. He told Nalyvaichenko that the CIA was interested in developing a relationship but only at a pace the agency was comfortable with, according to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.

To the CIA, the unknown question was how long Nalyvaichenko and the pro-Western government would be around. The CIA had been burned before in Ukraine.

…The result was a delicate balancing act. The CIA was supposed to strengthen Ukraine’s intelligence agencies without provoking the Russians. The red lines were never precisely clear, which created a persistent tension in the partnership.

Operation Goldfish

The CIA has provided the Ukrainians money and cutting-edge technology that has enabled them to develop eavesdropping operations that would have been impossible for them to carry out otherwise. Meanwhile, as part of a project known as "Operation Goldfish," the CIA was training special commando squads in European locations. There is a small "boast" in the NYT reporting about how the Ukrainians can now hack into Russian military networks.

In the bunker, Dvoretskiy pointed to communications equipment and large computer servers, some of which were financed by the CIA. He said his teams were using the base to hack into the Russian military’s secure communications networks.

“This is the thing that breaks into satellites and decodes secret conversations,” Dvoretskiy told a Times journalist on a tour, adding that they were hacking into spy satellites from China and Belarus, too.

…The CIA began sending equipment in 2016, after the pivotal meeting at Scattergood, Dvoretskiy said, providing encrypted radios and devices for intercepting secret enemy communications.

A stunning admission: “Tiptoeing Around Trump”

The NYT piece has several really intriguing and odd passages, one of which describes the scope of the CIA operation throughout the Trump years. According to the article, Trump may not even have been aware of the full extent. We are told that the "dirty work" was done covertly by the Russian hawks in his administration:

The election of Trump in November 2016 put the Ukrainians and their CIA partners on edge.

Trump praised Putin and dismissed Russia’s role in election interference. He was suspicious of Ukraine and later tried to pressure its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to investigate his Democratic rival, Biden, resulting in Trump’s first impeachment.