US President Joe Biden. File photo WASHINGTON, May 7. US President Joe Biden demanded on Friday that intelligence agencies and the Pentagon stop leaks of information about intelligence assistance to Ukraine to the press, NBC reports. It is noted that in a telephone conversation with CIA chief William Burns , Director of National Intelligence Avril Haynes and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Biden called a number of such publications «counterproductive» and «distracting from our goals.» As The New York Times previously reported, Washington is secretly transmitting «real-time» information about events on the battlefield to Ukraine, including details of the movements of Russian troops after the announcement of the second phase of the special operation. According to the publication, Ukrainian officials combined this data with their own intelligence information «to carry out artillery shelling and other attacks.» Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in this regard that the Russian military knows that the United States, NATO, Britain are transferring to Ukraine not only weapons, but also intelligence, which does not contribute to the quick completion of the special operation, but will not prevent its completion. The Pentagon later issued a refutation of media reports on this topic.
The cost of a new package of military aid to Ukraine was revealed in the USA
