In addition to sending equipment, American military support to Ukraine has involved, since the beginning of the conflict and even before the Russian invasion, valuable intelligence assistance.
Whether it is intelligence by satellites, by listening systems, but also by human means, the Americans have indeed shown their effectiveness, alerting very early on the inevitable outbreak of the invasion by Putin.
By the very admission of the American services, never has so much classified information been shared, in such a massive way, with a country that is admittedly an ally but not a member of NATO.
This is revealed, in an article published on its site Tuesday, April 26, the American channel NBC News, on the basis of testimonies from agents, current and former, of the services.
A transport plane shot down before taking an airport
The chain notably tells how, thanks to the detailed information thus provided on the precise sites which the planes and the missiles Russians were on the point of striking, the Ukrainians were able to move and shelter their own aircraft and their aerial batteries.
Thus allowing them to preserve their means of defence, inferior in number, with a view to an intense and lasting conflict.
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Another case reported by NBC, that of a troop transport plane thus spotted and shot down, with several hundred men on board, by the Ukrainian defenders at the very beginning of the war.
Without this cooperation with the Pentagon, the US Department of Defense, the jumbo jet could have landed and stormed a key airport near kyiv.
Jake Sullivan's Alert
The French, also beneficiaries as NATO allies of intelligence sharing, have also been able to measure its effectiveness.
In the early days of the invasion, Jake Sullivan, national security adviser to President Biden, alerted his allies: members of Russian special forces were present in the kyiv region with a mission to kill President Zelensky.
Paris obviously takes the information very seriously, with Quai d'Orsay boss Jean-Yves Le Drian even doing so publicly – recklessly?
– allusion by specifying that France stood ready to do what was necessary for the security of Zelensky.
Thanks to American indications, the Ukrainians "neutralized" (eliminated in military language) the Russian attackers in time.
