2023-04-16 10:05:35
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“Thanks to the desperate situation, the West may urge faster aid”
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jeon Myung-hun = Some Ukrainians say that it was ‘rather good’ over the leakage of confidential information by the US intelligence authorities. Although the gloomy situation was disclosed in the document, on a positive note, it was possible to urge the West to provide arms more quickly.
Oleksi Honcharenko, a member of the Ukrainian opposition center-right European Coalition Party, told the New York Times (NYT) on the 15th (local time), “From various points of view, this document leak is a good thing. It helped.”
He said that the West supporting Ukraine should rush more quickly, saying that if aid is not delivered quickly, “(the aid) might all go to waste. Too many things are at stake today.”
Among the classified intelligence documents allegedly leaked to the online chat service Discord by PFC Jack Teixeira, 21, a member of the US Air Force National Guard, there are many details regarding the poor situation in Ukraine in the first year of the war. .
According to these documents, it is expected that by May, Ukraine will run out of ammunition for its core anti-aircraft defense system. The situation in Bahmut, an eastern strategic point that has been under persistent Russian attacks for several months, is at the level of a ‘catastrophe’. The number of casualties of the Ukrainian army in this war amounted to regarding 120,000. It is less than the Russian army (regarding 200,000), but considering that the total population is one-third of Russia’s, it is an absolutely insignificant number.
However, the NYT reported that the Ukrainian military is in no mood to worry regarding such leaks.
Although Ukraine expressed some dissatisfaction with the US side regarding the leak itself, it is said that it has informed the US authorities that it will not revise the widely anticipated ‘spring counteroffensive’ plan.
This is because Ukraine’s vulnerabilities, such as the lack of ammunition, were already known not only to Russia but also to the world, and key information such as when, where, and how Ukraine would launch a counterattack was not leaked.
Meanwhile, U.S. officials told the New York Times that they had not yet identified any circumstances in which Russia strengthened security measures to block U.S. information collection. The West is concerned that Russia, stimulated by the leaked documents, might find and eliminate US intelligence sources in its country, but there is no change yet.
In the leaked documents, it was found that the US intelligence authorities had infiltrated the internal information of the Russian military to a very deep level. Some details of Russia’s attack plans were disclosed in advance, and it was also revealed that the United States presented Ukraine with detailed coordinates of targets in Russian-occupied territory.
However, there was no evidence of eavesdropping on the conversations of key Russian leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin. Most of the information related to the Russian leadership was indirect information such as messages rather than directly acquired information. As a result, some observers say that the US intelligence authorities are having considerable difficulties in gathering direct information on President Putin, the NYT added.
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