The New York Times published an article on intelligence cooperation between the United States and Ukraine after 2014, and considered this to be one of the main reasons for Moscow's "special military operation" against Ukraine in 2022.
The New York Times did not disclose the specifics, only claiming that the secret cooperation between the intelligence services of the United States and Ukraine has been maintained for 10 years, and not only the intelligence service, but also the British intelligence six (MI6) are involved, and with the support of the intelligence services of the United States and the United Kingdom, the Security Service of Ukraine has become the fifth bureau in charge of military intelligence, and the members of the fifth bureau were all born after the collapse of the Soviet Union and have nothing to do with Russia.
Beginning in 2014, the ** Intelligence Directorate began to provide security communications equipment to the Ukrainian intelligence services and trained members of the Fifth Directorate of the Security Service of Ukraine, as well as two other elite intelligence units; At the same time, the Intelligence Directorate also oversaw the Ukrainian intelligence training program in two European cities, including teaching Ukrainian intelligence officers how to go undercover so that these new generation of Ukrainian intelligence officers learned how to work in Russia, Europe, Cuba and wherever Russian forces exist, creating an effective intelligence network.
And since 2016, the ** Intelligence Bureau began to train an elite unit codenamed "Unit 2245", it is reported that the head of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Agency, Lieutenant General Budanov, was one of the members of the unit at that time, "The New York Times" did not disclose more information about "Unit 2245", but mentioned that in the early days of the war in 2022, the intelligence provided by the ** Intelligence Bureau, especially the movements of the Russian army, played a key role in the Ukrainian army withstanding the first wave of attacks of the Russian army and winning the battle of Kyiv.
In addition, before the start of the war, with the help of American intelligence, Ukrainian intelligence established 12 forward operating bases near the Russian border, which are equipped with advanced communication systems and intelligence collection systems, which are not only capable of remote control of Ukraine** operating in Russia, but also capable of collecting intelligence and even taking over the command of Russian drones operating near the border. After the start of the war, two secret bases were built specifically to intercept Russian military communications, and almost all the equipment in these bases was provided by the ** Intelligence Bureau.
The New York Times also mentioned that on February 15, **Intelligence Director William Burns secretly visited Ukraine to "reassure" the problems encountered by Ukrainian leaders in the US Congress's delay in passing new military aid, "The New York Times" called this William Burns' tenth visit to Ukraine in two years, and suggested that the **Intelligence Bureau led by William Burns played an irreplaceable role in Ukraine's war with Russia.
*We don't know exactly how much of a role the intelligence bureau has played in the war between Ukraine and Russia, but analysts believe that the intelligence bureau has been sharing intelligence with its own Ukrainian partners in terms of the Kremlin's bottom line and front-line military intelligence, including the United States** urgently warning Kyiv before the start of the war, and Kyiv chose to believe it after the initial disbelief and bought valuable time for the Ukrainian army.
After the start of the war, Russian generals were constantly targeted on the front line, and at that time, it was said that it was the US ** intelligence service that informed the Ukrainian army of the exact location of these Russian generals. However, judging from the subsequent series of reports, especially the significant reduction in the number of Russian generals killed, it seems that this is not the case, according to US media reports, the Ukrainian army did try to kill Russian generals, but the intelligence support received from the US side is not what most people think:
When the Ukrainian military asks whether a Russian target appeared in a certain place at a certain time, the United States will only answer yes or no, without taking the initiative to inform relevant intelligence, otherwise, it is easy for the Kremlin to be regarded by the Kremlin as a US intelligence service.