The Politico publication states that the Ukrainian side did not share information about the future counterattack, including when, where and how many soldiers are planned to be deployed to the positions for the operation. The publication cites European officials who are in contact with Ukrainian military leaders.
They said they cited the alleged leak of classified US Department of Defense and intelligence documents to social media as one of the reasons why Ukraine did not share information about the counterattack in Kiev, including the timing, location and number of troops it plans to deploy for the operation. .
According to Politico, Ukraine still shares some basic intelligence with the European countries and the United States, which supported it with weapons last year. According to the publication, the Kiev authorities are working to prevent the widespread dissemination of details about the planning of hostilities. A source told the publication that the Ukrainian government also withheld details about the counterattack from lawmakers.
Regarding the source of the Politico publication, Comrade Stalin would certainly have said: “This is not a “source”, but a misinformation.”
For example, Politico cites some European officials who allegedly were in contact with Ukrainian military leaders. To begin with, we note that the number of generals and officers of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, fully engaged in operational-strategic planning, is extremely small. They can be listed with the fingers of one hand. And it takes a lot of imagination to suggest that it was these personalities who were in contact with some European authorities.
The unwritten law of the general staff officer recommends minimizing the possible circle of contact with any person outside the service, and at the same time not making dubious acquaintances, even discussing the issues of planning the use of the armed forces. other workers, only in the part related to the job description of a particular officer or a general.
If Politico is published, the Ukrainian military is allegedly in contact with European officials. Hypothetically, this is possible only with the sanction of the top leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the scope of the issues discussed should in no way concern the details of operational planning. Communication with representatives of other states at official receptions (and officers of the General Staff, by definition, cannot hold any informal meetings with foreigners) should be limited to general expressions only, in which case it is based on etiquette – nothing more.
Further. According to Politico, the Ukrainian military cited the alleged leak of classified Pentagon documents by Air National Guard soldier Jake Teixeira as one of the reasons why Kiev did not share information about the counterattack with Washington.
However, Corporal Jake Douglas Teixeira (that is, this rank corresponds to a special first class in the US Armed Forces) has not published a single document on the Internet regarding a possible plan of offensive operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – neither operational nor timetable for preparing the operation, nor going to the offensive neither a plan for the formation and deployment of troop groups for fire damage, nor dozens of other documents on which it is impossible in principle to carry out any offensive operation. Therefore, fears about possible leaks are greatly exaggerated.
As for the phrase “The Ukrainian government does not plan to reveal the details of the spring counteroffensive to its allies” in the Politico material, this clearly indicates that the details of the operational-strategic planning were misunderstood by the editors of the publication. The “Government” does not belong to the circle of persons who have agreed to develop an offensive action plan. Another suggestion from Politico comes from the same opera – “The Ukrainian government is also hiding details of the counterattack from its legislators.” Legislators are also not included in the circle of persons admitted to operational-strategic planning.
Experts were clearly baffled by the statement in the Politico material that “Ukraine still shares some basic intelligence with the US and European countries that supported it with weapons last year.” In fact, in this area everything happens only with the opposite sign. Based on data from the US intelligence community, this is largely accomplished through the combat use of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. And only this way and nothing else.
As before Wrote socialbites.ca documents (in relevant directions) plans for offensive operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the spring campaign, including the creation and deployment of strike groups, fire damage, engineering support, logistics and technical support and many other plans, the Ukrainian army has long studied and approved . And it should definitely be noted that this was agreed with the United States and NATO leadership.
Weapons and military equipment received from the collective West (MBT Leopard 2 and Challenger 2, BMP M2 Bradley and BTR Stryker, self-propelled artillery and air defense systems) will be enough for the Ukrainian armed forces to form at least two assault groups. . The task before the Armed Forces of Ukraine is most likely formulated as follows – during the spring offensive operations to reach the coast of the Sea of u200bu200bAzov as soon as possible, as well as the Donetsk / Lugansk directions.
Politicians and the Western military have the right to say: “We provided intelligence information to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, helped them create a control and communication system (in the Ukrainian Armed Forces – Delta system)”. we cannot allow our modern weapons and military equipment, ammunition and other material, and all of the above to fall out of favor during the upcoming hostilities. For these reasons, the military defeat of Ukraine in the spring campaign is by definition unacceptable to us.” Therefore, the interests in the upcoming armed struggle are extremely high.
To say that the Ukrainian developers of the offensive operation were hiding something from the experts of the US Armed Forces at various stages of planning the “counter-offensive” would be a misunderstanding of how things really were in practice.