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Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 08:20 AM Mar 2025

FT: US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine

FT - (archived: https://archive.ph/JPjpx ) US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine

Christopher Miller in Lisbon, Lucy Fisher in London and Ben Hall and Henry Foy in Brussels

Published
18 minutes ago

The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter.

The move follows the decision on Monday by the Trump administration to suspend military aid deliveries to Ukraine and comes after a dramatic breakdown in relations between the US president and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

US intelligence co-operation has been essential for Ukraine’s ability to identify and strike Russian military targets.

Three officials familiar with the decision confirmed that Washington had frozen intelligence channels with Kyiv.

This is a developing story


Reuters - US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine, FT reports

By Reuters
March 5, 2025
7:12 AM EST
Updated 13 min ago

(Reuters) - The United States has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military's ability to target Russian forces, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing officials familiar with the matter.
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FT: US cuts off intelligence sharing with Ukraine (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 OP
Good job, Republicans newdeal2 Mar 2025 #1
I'm shocked??? DemMedic Mar 2025 #2
Fucking ruskie assets SheltieLover Mar 2025 #3
I am ashamed of my country. Scrivener7 Mar 2025 #4
I'm pretty sure UK and other allies to Ukraine have other sources not..................... Lovie777 Mar 2025 #5
Russia would own Ukraine right now if it were not for US intelligence. gab13by13 Mar 2025 #6
This is official in word/deed, but won't happen in reality. Not as long as there are intel supply chain folks around. ancianita Mar 2025 #17
And I think they're stupid dangerous n/t aggiesal Mar 2025 #23
Trump on Tuesday? DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #24
Only one reason to do this: benefit Vlad the Impaler. . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2025 #7
Anyone notice DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #31
How do you abandon Ukraine without saying out loud you are abandoning Ukraine? But it is worse than just abandonment. tetedur Mar 2025 #8
Shashank Joshi: Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive. Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 #9
Shashank Joshi: US appears set on crushing Ukraine capacity to force Zelensky to submit. Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 #10
Pure cynical meanness DFW Mar 2025 #11
I want a banner across my.house saying, " How do you like living in West Russia?'" sinkingfeeling Mar 2025 #12
Or DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #27
Chappatte Cartoon Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 #13
Wow. Accurate. And damning. highplainsdem Mar 2025 #14
Not really accurate DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #29
Trump wants to hand Ukraine over to Putin dlk Mar 2025 #15
Ukraine will be getting our intelligence regardless. AmericaUnderSiege Mar 2025 #16
Shameful .... Our Satellites gave the Ukrainians a big edge over the invading Russians Botany Mar 2025 #18
Shame! Shame! Shame! roscoeroscoe Mar 2025 #19
There are always strings attached when you are Putin's puppet Blue Dotty Mar 2025 #20
Fat, bloated, disgusting, lying bastard. surfered Mar 2025 #21
Crumb The 1st of course is maintaining moniss Mar 2025 #22
What a total fucking worthless asshole! Initech Mar 2025 #25
The deal offered is withdraw from the areas claimed by Russia, shrink armed forces, and declare neutrality. David__77 Mar 2025 #26
Force Trump to conceed Tim S Mar 2025 #28
maybe markie Mar 2025 #30
Not to worry. US will continue to share intelligence with Russia. Sneederbunk Mar 2025 #32
Ukraine may be better off without it. Buns_of_Fire Mar 2025 #33
According to the Financial Times, the United States also took the extraordinary step to block its allies, like the UK Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 #34

Lovie777

(22,790 posts)
5. I'm pretty sure UK and other allies to Ukraine have other sources not.....................
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 08:25 AM
Mar 2025

privilege to the USA. They had time to prepare.

Starlink is not our friend.

Plus this present administration is dangerous stupid.

gab13by13

(32,038 posts)
6. Russia would own Ukraine right now if it were not for US intelligence.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 08:27 AM
Mar 2025

We alerted Ukraine of Russia's imminent attack 3 years ago.

ancianita

(43,284 posts)
17. This is official in word/deed, but won't happen in reality. Not as long as there are intel supply chain folks around.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:17 AM
Mar 2025

Besides, Gabbard won't have any intel that Ukraine wants, nor will she know the intel that Ukraine actually gets from our former allies.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
24. Trump on Tuesday?
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:06 AM
Mar 2025

Forbid the UK from sharing intelligence to Ukraine, and Musk has already threatened to cut off the internet access to Ukraine provided by his satellites, cell phone via his satellites, and cancel the intel his satellites were providing to his Military.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
31. Anyone notice
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:59 AM
Mar 2025

in the most recent White House press conference that AP and another major news organization were both kicked out of the Press Corps???????????? WOW.......AND, A NEWS REPORTER FROM RUSSIA'S STATE OWNED NEWS MEDIA, "SOMEHOW" GOT INTO THE ROOM???????????????????

How the hell did he get into the White House News Corp?????? much less, even get into the White House??????????
He had to have had a Press Corp I.D. I wonder who gave him one??????????? Obviously, an "in person" spy job ordered by Putin....
Not alot different than the Russian woman Putin inserted into the NRA for almost a year, who shared pillow talk with countless higher ups in the NRA......in the run up to the election.......

tetedur

(1,412 posts)
8. How do you abandon Ukraine without saying out loud you are abandoning Ukraine? But it is worse than just abandonment.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 08:40 AM
Mar 2025

You cut off the intel sharing and you cut off weapons then you strong arm that vulnerable country into signing over its natural resources taking whatever it has to sustain itself. The United States is committing multiple egregious sins.

Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
9. Shashank Joshi: Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 08:41 AM
Mar 2025
Shashank Joshi
‪@shashj.bsky.social‬
Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive. "The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/c58f...

March 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM


Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive. "The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/c58f...

Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) 2025-03-05T12:24:14.365Z


Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
10. Shashank Joshi: US appears set on crushing Ukraine capacity to force Zelensky to submit.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 08:49 AM
Mar 2025
Shashank Joshi
‪@shashj.bsky.social‬
US appears set on crushing Ukraine capacity to force Zelensky to submit. Never mind that this is a bonfire of leverage versus Russia, which has every reason to believe it can dictate terms or reject a ceasefire in the knowledge that Trump is likely to blame Ukraine. Criminally bad negotiating.

‪Shashank Joshi‬
@shashj.bsky.social‬
22m
Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive. "The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/c58f...

March 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM


Bad, bad news. Unnecessary, punitive, vindictive. "The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/c58f...

Shashank Joshi (@shashj.bsky.social) 2025-03-05T12:24:14.365Z

DFW

(60,074 posts)
11. Pure cynical meanness
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 08:51 AM
Mar 2025

If only there were a way to rectify the evil being done in our name right now.

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
27. Or
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:13 AM
Mar 2025

Berlitz courses for mandatory learning of Russian, on sale now from Trump University for twice the normal price......

Oh, and his WWE Vamp, who is now running the Secretary of Education, will probably be directing all Public Schools to stop teaching spanish, and those classes will be replaced with mandatory classes in Russian in grades K thru 12.......

Dennis Donovan

(31,059 posts)
13. Chappatte Cartoon
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 08:59 AM
Mar 2025
Chappatte Cartoons
‪@chappatte.bsky.social‬
US cuts aid to Ukraine - © Chappatte in Le Temps, Geneva 👉 www.chappatte.com/en/images/us...

March 5, 2025 at 4:30 AM




US cuts aid to Ukraine - © Chappatte in Le Temps, Geneva 👉 www.chappatte.com/en/images/us...

Chappatte Cartoons (@chappatte.bsky.social) 2025-03-05T09:30:43.166Z

DENVERPOPS

(13,003 posts)
29. Not really accurate
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:18 AM
Mar 2025

If it were accurate, the barrel wouldn't be on his back, the barrel would be up his ***

Which is more like what Trump, (Putin), is doing to the U.S. Citizens, and shoving it upwards inch by inch, farther with each day that passes...

Botany

(77,124 posts)
18. Shameful .... Our Satellites gave the Ukrainians a big edge over the invading Russians
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:20 AM
Mar 2025

Krasnov wants 100,000s of Ukrainians to die and the rest to become slaves to Putin.

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan both Carter and Reagan sent aid to the
Taliban fighting the invaders.

roscoeroscoe

(1,825 posts)
19. Shame! Shame! Shame!
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:25 AM
Mar 2025

This is going to cut against the passionate support of many, many U.S. intelligence personnel.

Blue Dotty

(177 posts)
20. There are always strings attached when you are Putin's puppet
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:29 AM
Mar 2025

Bravo, orange buffoon.You will die his puppet, and never be his equal. Using your metaphor, Putin holds all the cards (and tapes.)

Initech

(108,545 posts)
25. What a total fucking worthless asshole!
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:09 AM
Mar 2025

Seriously, Vladimir Putin is a James Bond level supervillain, and half of this country is just letting him win! Hell, they're on his side! Just... ahhhh!!! We should be rising up and bombing his sorry ass back to the stone ages!

David__77

(24,590 posts)
26. The deal offered is withdraw from the areas claimed by Russia, shrink armed forces, and declare neutrality.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:10 AM
Mar 2025

That’s what the US wants Ukraine to do. If Ukraine wants to do something different, then conciliation with the US will not be helpful, rather separating UK, France and Germany from the US will be.

Tim S

(204 posts)
28. Force Trump to conceed
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:15 AM
Mar 2025

Zelensky should tell Trump that he either restores military & intelligence support to Biden admin levels or he’ll sell Ukraine’s rare earth & mineral rights to China to give them a full monopoly.

When you’re faced with extinction at the hands of Putin, you do what you have to do.

markie

(23,997 posts)
30. maybe
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 11:40 AM
Mar 2025

(and welcome) the minerals should go to the countries that will help win the war

Buns_of_Fire

(19,113 posts)
33. Ukraine may be better off without it.
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 01:39 PM
Mar 2025

I wouldn't put it past TSF to have them fed bad information to help his BFF Vlad. Ukraine will still get information from other agencies in Europe (who may be thinking hard about whether or not they want to share information with us.)

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(135,081 posts)
34. According to the Financial Times, the United States also took the extraordinary step to block its allies, like the UK
Wed Mar 5, 2025, 09:34 PM
Mar 2025
from sharing intelligence provided by the United States with Ukraine. However, the Times reports that the allies of the United States are still expected to provide relevant intelligence to Kyiv.

https://meidasnews.com/news/the-united-states-cuts-off-intelligence-sharing-with-ukraine-report

Hey Donny, go fuck yourself.
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