© Ezra Acayan / Getty ImagesHigh Mobility Artillery Rocket System
The decision came after officials in Washington confirmed that they had frozen military aid and intelligence support to Kiev following a spat between Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky and US President Donald Trump.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Carroll wrote that "America cut a key intel link for alerts" at 2pm Kiev time. "Before that: targeting data for HIMARS. Ukraine also isn't receiving realtime information for long-range strikes," he added.
"Trump wanted a thank you," an unnamed source told the journalist. "We will be writing it on graves of dead Ukrainians."
The source was apparently referring to the US leader's remarks in which he accused Zelensky of ingratitude for American aid to Kiev, which served as a prelude to the suspension of assistance.
At the same time, CIA Director John Ratcliffe confirmed that the US had suspended both intelligence sharing and weapons systems support to Kiev. However, he noted that the restrictions could be lifted if Ukraine demonstrated a commitment to peace negotiations with Russia.
The Washington Post reported, citing unnamed US and Ukrainian officials, that the freeze on intelligence sharing has resulted in Kiev no longer being able to "strike back at select targets inside Russia," something which had been allowed - with some exceptions - by the administration of former US President Joe Biden.
Comment: Trump cuts off Ukraine from killing Russian civilians. Good move.
A Ukrainian military officer told the outlet that over the past month "at least one of the Ukrainian groups responsible for launching rockets from the US systems has not received coordinates to strike more than about 40 miles beyond the line of contact between Russian and Ukrainian forces."
Another WP source said that the Trump administration continues to share data only when it is necessary to protect Kiev's troops under attack.
As of November 2024, the US had supplied more than 40 HIMARS systems to Ukraine, along with thousands of missiles, according to the Pentagon. It is unclear how many remain operational and how much ammunition Kiev still has in stock.
Moscow has repeatedly accused Kiev of using HIMARS - which has a range of up to 300km - to strike civilian targets.
Russia has consistently condemned Western arms shipments to Ukraine, arguing that they only prolong the conflict without changing its outcome. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that if the US were to halt military aid completely, it would "probably be the best contribution to the cause of peace."
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The ones who "have the cards" are those ready to defend their homeland against all enemies including and most importantly those "within" - but rest assured - defenders are in place - and defense is easy - and separation from debt tis easy as well.
I guess we'll see what happens in Israel. Something just isn't right about the difference in attitude between the two places.
Weapons forwarded to Israel, by the American war machine, guess what, forwarded by Israel to Constanta watched over by American army! Aye but no more does American or NATO spy aircraft go near Crimea, because they have been told by Russia exactly what’s going to happen if they do!
Trump is a farce, the truce is a non starter, this is the prelude to full scale War. WW3! The players Israeli Zionists American Zionists, English Zionists French Zionists, German Zionists and yet again, Poland, again the black op, and excuse for starters! Aye, and representing the free world, Zionist free Russia! And the fodder….. you, your sons and your daughters! But your cities are not going to be excused, as These aforementioned counties are murdering civilians with American missiles American trained and paid assassination squads, murdering reporters and defenceless men women and children, all civilians, you are not going to miss this same American English French and German treatment!
But the front line isn’t going to be the cowardly Americans, well not to start with, they have made that abundantly clear!
Russias problem, Bankers lost Russian assets when they couldn’t start a
Russian civil war when they had the opportunity. Perestroika curtailed CIA plans!
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men,
Gang aft a-gley,
An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,
For promis'd joy.
or democracy, otherwise known as slavery!
And in the meantime ...
Trump kicks off the process of detaching from Europe and Nato : [Link] ... while European Nato members seem to view the US as another enemy : [Link] And Trump kicks off the process of detaching from the US Far East bases : [Link] And, the Brits seem to beg for a coup de grâce : [Link] ... while the US is seriously considering dropping all sanctions : [Link] Interesting times, indeed.
And a massive cognitive dissonance for quite a few ...
I expect the CIA will leak the info to the Ukraine. We will see if any missiles strike civilians.
Russia has not declared war on Ukraine its a special military operation. Russia isn’t part of the ecc or or its other body, It follows is military right to secure its borders against European and American aggression and coup detat!
Russian crypto confiscated: [Link]
Interest from Russias seized accounts going to Ukraine: [Link]
How you like them apples?
It's like you never read anything.
Listen……. Not many more chances are going to be given to America or Europe!
As a side note did you notice that the democrat reply to Trumps recent speech to congress Elissa Slotkin said: "I knew I wanted to make a life in national security . I was recruited by the CIA "...Just saying CIA over Trump not Trump over the CIA(is obvious to me).
'Full Democratic response to Trump's speech':
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this is a Russian military site, try accessing it! On any American computer system!
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ned,
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