US cuts the exchange of intelligence information with Ukraine

Chijioke Obinna

US cuts the exchange of intelligence information with Ukraine

The director of the CIA, John Ratcliffe, has confirmed Wednesday that The exchange of intelligence information between the United States and Ukraine has been paralyzed. The decision occurs after Washington suspended Military Aid to kyiv, which contributed as support for the invasion made by Russia in February 2022.

“What President Trump has done is ask for a pause,” said Ratcliffe in an interview with the American television network Fox News, in which he stressed that the president “is the president of La Paz.” “There has never been a war under his leadership. He wants to end existing wars,” he said. “In this case, as everyone saw, Trump had Real doubts about whether Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski was committed to the peace process. Pousar said to give a chance to think about it. The answer was seen and Zelenski published a statement saying: ‘I am prepared for peace, “he said.

Thus, Ratcliffe has pointed out that “on the military front and on the intelligence front, the pause that allowed this to happen, will end.” “I think we must work shoulder shoulder with Ukraineas we have done, to repel the existing aggression, but putting the world in a better place for peace negotiations to advance, “he argued, before influencing that” Trump is going to make everyone give accounts and boost peace in the world. ” Times’, a fact that takes place in the midst of Washington’s pressures to kyiv for a peace process with Russia.

Shock in the White House

The suspension of military aid also took place days after public encounter In the White House among the presidents of the United States and Ukraine, Donald Trump and Volodimir Zelenski, respectively, although the Ukrainian president said Tuesday that he is made available to the “firm leadership” of the magnate to achieve peace. “My team and I are willing to work under the firm leadership of President Trump to achieve lasting peace,” said Zelenski. “None of us want an endless war. Ukraine is willing to sit at the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring a lasting peace. Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians,” he settled.

Chijioke Obinna

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