U.S. intelligence officials now have detailed information that Russia has amassed the kind of forces needed for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. But the Obama administration has refused to share with Ukraine the imagery, intercepts, and analysis that pinpoint the location of the Russian troops ready to seize more Ukrainian land, The Daily Beast website reports exclusively today (April 8, 2014).
President Obama has repeatedly and publicly expressed solidarity with the Ukrainian people -- and warned Russian leader Vladimir Putin that there will be severe consequences if he takes over any more Ukrainian territory. Nonetheless, Obama's administration has been reluctant to hand over the kind of intelligence that could benefit the Ukrainians in defending themselves.
U.S. officials and members of Congress briefed on the crisis in Ukraine tell The Daily Beast that senior U.S. military officers have been instructed to refrain from briefing their Ukrainian counterparts about what the United States knows about the Russian troops amassing on the border.
"I am not confident we are sharing any of that kind of information," said Rep. Michael Turner, the Republican chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's subcommittee that oversees NATO and U.S. tactical air and land forces. "It's clear we are not giving them critical military advice about the Russian capability on their border and the best utilization of the Ukrainian military to counter that."
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