Vadym Khlyudzinskyi20:29, 08.10.24

US intelligence was well aware of Russia’s plans to invade Ukraine.

Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the current US presidential candidate, the country’s vice president, Kamala Harris, demanded that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky develop a plan for the transfer of power that would ensure stability in the event of his capture or assassination. Bob Woodward, deputy editor of The Washington Post, told about it in his book .

He also alleges that Harris tried to push French President Emmanuel Macron into action in the fall of 2021 in preparation for what U.S. intelligence says will be a major military act by Russia against Ukraine.

Woodward compares the failure of US intelligence in Afghanistan to the “remarkable understanding” US intelligence had of Russia’s plans ahead of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. According to the author, Biden’s “most delicate” diplomacy was an attempt to prevent a nuclear attack by the Russian Federation.”In the fall of 2022, this option seemed real, as American intelligence agencies reported that Putin was seriously considering the use of tactical nuclear weapons – at one point estimating the probability at 50 percent. A particularly frantic attempt to bring Moscow back from the brink took place in October of that year, when Russia, seemed to be laying the groundwork for escalation by accusing Ukraine of preparing to detonate a dirty bomb,” the book says.

Zelensky’s meeting with Harris

On September 26, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, met in Washington with the Vice President of the United States, the candidate for the position of the head of the White House from the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris. The latter, in particular, harshly reacted to proposals to surrender the territories of Ukraine in exchange for peace.

As Harris said, she considers proposals for Ukraine’s neutrality and the surrender of large parts of the territory to be capitulation, not peace.

(C)UNIAN 2024