Network of CIA-backed spy bases, including 12 near the Russian border, have been built over the past eight years in Ukraine. Bases are part of the close collaboration between the American agency and Kiev.
A crucial partnership in the battle against Russia, which dates back more than a decade. CIA's training of an elite Ukrainian commando unit - Unit 2245 - to capture Russian drones and communications equipment to enable the intelligence agency American to study and codify Moscow's encrypted systems. CIA director Williams Burns secretly flew to Kiev in recent days, in what was his tenth visit since the start of the invasion.