Biden’s promise not to put “boots on the ground” in Ukraine was a lie, according to a leaked document from the Pentagon.
Leaked document has a legend of US/NATO special forces in Ukraine pic.twitter.com/Po0pRJ6gMx
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 7, 2023
Should probably be emphasized that this is the first known instance of official documentary confirmation of US "boots on the ground" in Ukraine. It's right there in black and white. (And no, those "SOF" personnel are not categorized as merely "guarding the embassy")
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 8, 2023
"DAO" personnel (Defense Attaché Office) would likely have something like "embassy security" in their purview, but there's never been any good reason to assume that's strictly what their role would be limited to pic.twitter.com/5CLHkvnoPK
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 8, 2023
But that still leaves the USSOF, about whose activities the public is allowed to know essentially nothing. (USSOCOM is reputed to operate as a semi-autonomous command run directly out of the White House.) Soooo… what have these guys been up to in Ukraine? Anybody? Bueller?
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) April 8, 2023
https://twitter.com/sethharpesq/status/1645260700959293442
From WSWS:
The main revelations from the documents are:
– 97 NATO Special Operations troops are currently deployed inside Ukraine.
– A total of 100 US personnel are deployed inside Ukraine, including 71 US military personnel.
– The US military sees the training of the Ukrainian military, NATO deployments in Europe and US military deployments inside Ukraine as being interoperable, and reports all of them on a single page.
– The US has drawn up detailed maps for a planned offensive operation aimed at cutting off Crimea from Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory, with “favorable” conditions for the offensive beginning in mid-May.
– The US and its NATO allies are training, funding and arming three quarters of the forces that are going to be thrown into combat as part of this offensive. One of the documents declares that “12 combat credible [brigades] can be generated for the spring Counteroffensive: 3 internationally by Ukraine, and 9 are US, Allied & Partner trained and equipped.”
The French government appears to be the only country listed which addressed the slide.
“There are no French forces engaged in operations in Ukraine,” the team of Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu told Le Monde on Saturday.
A French reporter who returned from Ukraine said in April 2022 that US and UK special forces were present in Ukraine since the beginning of hostilities broke out in February.
https://twitter.com/antiwar_soldier/status/1513596067442569227
The New York Times reported in June 2022 that CIA personnel are also on the ground in Ukraine directing the war.
[Stock header image shows “U.S. Soldiers assigned to 1-10th Special Forces Group secure their weapons after a day of training at the Panzer Range Complex, Boeblingen, Germany, Nov. 8, 2016.” (U.S. Army photo by Visual Information Specialist Jason Johnston)]
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By Chris Menahan