ukraine president, Volodymyr Zelenskyspecially raised possibility of attacking and conquering Russian lands or blowing up the pipeline supplying Hungary with Russian oil, US secret service documents According to ‘The Washington Post’ newspaper, Ukraine is collecting internal communications from the president’s military chiefs.
Zelensky so far won the support of western allies with promises that he would never use the weapons they had given him to attack Russian soil, but would speculate on offensive actions and the use of long-range missiles to attack targets on Russian soil, according to these sources.
Zelensky’s digital communication captured by the USA, passing this information on to his military leadership. According to the newspaper, senior Pentagon officials did not question this data.
risky actions
In these communications, Zelenskiy is sometimes the one to put an end to his advisers’ proposals, while in others it is the president himself who proposes risky offensive actions, as in a text from the end of January in which he proposes to “attack”. Russia” and “Occupy the cities bordering Russia” “Giving Kiev something to negotiate with Moscow.”
Then, in mid-February, Zelenskiy asked Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svridenko to “blow up” the Druzhba pipeline, a Soviet-era canal from which Hungary gets Russian oil. “Ukraine must blow up the pipeline and destroy Hungarian Viktor Orbán’s industry, which depends on Russian oil,” he said.
‘Post’ asked Zelensky in Kiev for this information and called the speculation “fantasy” On the occupation of Russian territory by Ukraine. However, he advocated the use of “unconventional” tactics to defend his country. “Ukraine has the right to defend itself, and we are doing it (…). Since so many people died in mass graves and our people were tortured, I think we have the right to resort to any kind of deception,” he argued.
According to the Post, these communications “reveal a leader with aggressive instincts, which conflicts with his public image as a calm and formidable statesman who has stood up to Russia’s brutal onslaught”.
The documentation was posted on Discord and its origin would be Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts National Guard. which is already being investigated. They contain information about satellite technology used by Washington for espionage, and data about allies such as the United Kingdom, Canada, South Korea or Israel, as well as rivals such as Iran or North Korea.