US intelligence officers were able to gather an extremely detailed and accurate picture of the plans of Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin for his rebellion, but the intelligence was shared only with selected allies and was not disclosed to Ukraine in advance.
Source: CNN, referring to its sources, as reported by European Pravda
Details: According to the TV channel’s sources, it was not clear when Prigozhin would act, but it seems that he decided to start implementing his plan after the Russian Ministry of Defence announced on 10 June that all private military companies, including Wagner, would be forced to sign contracts with the Russian military starting in July.
The intelligence was so classified that in the US, only the most senior officials of the Biden administration and members of the Congressional Group of Eight, who have access to the most sensitive intelligence, were privy to it.
The US shared the data with senior UK officials but not with NATO allies on a broader level, the sources said.
The secrecy of the intelligence meant that some senior European officials and even senior US government officials were caught off guard by Prigozhin’s rebellion on Friday and the speed with which Wagner’s troops advanced towards Rostov-on-Don and Moscow on Saturday morning, as the sources said.
Some NATO officials expressed disappointment that the intelligence was not made public. But doing so could have compromised extremely sensitive sources and methods.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/27/7408711/
“US intelligence officers were able to gather an extremely detailed and accurate picture of the plans of Wagner group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin for his rebellion, but the intelligence was shared only with selected allies and was not disclosed to Ukraine in advance.”
Why the hell would you not share intelligence like this with Ukraine? Ukraine could have prepared some nasty surprises had they had access to this data. Makes you wonder which side the US are on at times.
Could have at least slipped it to General Zaluzhnyi.
Wagner must return all their heavy weapons to the Russian army: Kremlin.
I can understand why this info wasn’t given to everyone in Europe, and was shared only with the UK, but, this should also have been shared with Ukraine. I just don’t get it. Our government is so darned weird sometimes.