Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby denied reports stating the United States shared intelligence to target Russian Generals.
“The United States provides battlefield intelligence to help Ukraine defend their country,” Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters Thursday. “We do not provide intelligence on the location of senior military leaders on the battlefield or participate in targeting decisions of the Ukrainian military.”
The New York Times and other outlets reported that Ukrainian forces utilized American intelligence to perform attacks that eliminated Russian generals and other leading authorities. Formerly, Ukrainian authorities have actually declared that their armed force has actually eliminated approximately a dozen generals since the start of the dispute on Feb. 24.
The U.S. National Security Council (NSC) launched a declaration after the NY Times’ report, stating it is deceptive and reckless.
“The United States provides battlefield intelligence to help the Ukrainians defend their country,” NSC spokesperson Adrienne Watson told the AFP news agency. “We do not provide intelligence with the intent to kill Russian generals.”
Meanwhile, the Kremlin also issued an angry response and said that “the Russian military is doing whatever is necessary in this situation.”
“Our military is well aware that the United States, Britain, and NATO as a whole are constantly transmitting intelligence and other parameters to the Ukrainian armed forces,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters, according to state-run media.
The Kremlin likewise stated and released an upset action that “the Russian military is doing whatever is necessary in this situation.”
“Ukraine combines information that we and other partners provide with the intelligence that they themselves are gathering, and then they make their own decisions and they take their own actions,” he said.
It comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin informed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in a telephone call that Russia was still all set to supply safe passage for civilians from the besieged Azovstal steelworks in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, the Kremlin stated in a statement.
The statement said Putin told Bennett in a “thorough exchange of views on the situation in Ukraine” that Kyiv ought to buy Ukrainian fighters holed up in the large Azovstal plant to put down their weapons. Ukrainian protectors stuck at the website have actually stuck on frantically for weeks, while some civilians have actually made it to security through humanitarian passages however others stay within.
The Kremlin earlier rejected that Russian forces were storming the plant, describing an April 21 order from Putin that they must seal it off but not endeavor inside its maze of underground tunnels.
H/T The Epoch Times
