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Wednesday, March 5, 2025
CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced on March 5 that the United States will pause its intelligence sharing programme with Ukraine.
The move comes a day after the US paused all military aid, citing the need to bring Russian and Ukrainian sides to the negotiating table.
Officials stated that the pauses of military aid and intelligence may not last for long if the Ukrainian president takes steps to achieve and negotiate peace. “We are pausing, assessing, looking at everything across our security relationship”, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz told CBS News.
In the period since the start of the full scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the US and the CIA shared large amounts of key intelligence information. These include satellite imagery, surveillance flights, and leaked information, which often helped the Ukrainian side in carrying out its military operations.
Ratcliffe hoped for these measures to succeed quickly, stating in an interview on Fox Business: “I think on the military front and the intelligence front, the pause that allowed that to happen, I think will go away.”
On the Russian side, member of the Russian State Duma Andrey Kartapolov stated earlier that “It would be much more important if the Americans stopped giving them with intelligence information, then this would allow us to achieve results more quickly”.
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|title = US pauses intelligence sharing with Ukraine
|author = Ana Faguy
|pub = BBC News
|date = March 5, 2025
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