Republicans want the U.S. intelligence community to increase its information-sharing with Ukraine significantly, including helping the country's military if it moves to retake the Russian-occupied territories of Crimea and the Donbas.
The Russian military has abandoned its efforts surrounding the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv after a disjointed invasion launched in February and is regrouping in eastern Ukraine, with plans to carry out significant operations there. Russian leader Vladimir Putin seized the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 while Russian-backed separatists began seizing portions of the eastern Donbas region the same year.
CIA Director William Burns said Thursday at Georgia Tech that the United States has been “committed to rapid and effective intelligence sharing with our Ukrainian partners throughout the fighting.” But the report indicated that “some people familiar with the directive say there is ambiguity about the new limits,” including “whether the U.S. would delay or limit information about a possible Russian target in areas internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory but that Moscow or its proxies controlled before the war.”
“We want to make sure that’s clear to our force, and so the updated guidance that goes out today, we’ll make sure that that’s clear,” Austin said, adding, “Certainly the current guidance was not clear in that regard, so we’ll make sure that’s clear.”
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