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The United States has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing officials familiar with the matter.
Two officials told the paper that while Ukraine had been frozen out of intelligence channels, the US was still sharing crucial information on Russia and Ukraine with its closest allies, including the UK.
But last night, the Mail revealed that Donald Trump‘s administration banned the UK from sharing US intelligence with allies in Ukraine.
American intelligence has been crucial to Ukraine for it to identify Russian military targets during the brutal invasion that began in February 2022.
But in recent weeks, Zelensky and Trump have been quarrelling on the world stage, leading to souring relations between their nations that reached its lowest point last week when the Ukrainian leader was unceremoniously booted out of the White House without signing a long-awaited minerals deal.
Zelensky last night backtracked on this, telling the world he was ready to work under Trump’s ‘strong leadership’ and wants to ‘make things right’ after their ‘regrettable’ White House row.
The major military and intelligence moves came amid serious fears that Ukraine would run out of American military supplies within a few weeks.
A senior Ukrainian intelligence official said that Ukraine would probably run out of the last American military supplies in ‘two or three months’.
Donald Trump (pictured) has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces
‘After that, it will be very difficult for us,’ the official told the Financial Times. ‘It will not be a total collapse, but we will be forced to withdraw from areas more quickly.’
Trump’s critics suggested any long-term freeze would lengthen rather than shorten the war, as it would encourage the Kremlin to exploit Kyiv’s dwindling weapons and ammunition stocks and launch a fresh bid for more territory.
Currently, Ukrainian and Russia troops are facing off along a 600-mile frontline, which has gradually been pushed deeper into Ukraine due to Russian advances.
Russia occupies around one fifth of Ukraine, including eastern provinces and the Crimean peninsula.
Ukraine, meanwhile, is clinging on to a relatively small amount of territory it seized last year in the southern Russia province of Kursk.
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