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CIA halts intelligence sharing with Ukraine

2025-03-05 21:13:53Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
CIA halts intelligence sharing with Ukraine
CIA halts intelligence sharing with Ukraine

The United States says it has stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine, a move that could seriously limit Kiev's ability to continue its three-year war with Russia. The decision comes as Washington tries to push the two countries toward peace talks to end the conflict.

President Donald Trump earlier this week ordered the suspension of US military aid to Kiev following his controversial meeting last week at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday that the United States has temporarily stopped sharing intelligence with Kiev, although the decision may be short-lived after Mr. Zelenskyy said his acrimonious exchanges with President Trump in the Oval Office were "regrettable" and that Ukraine was ready for peace talks with Russia.

"I think on the military and intelligence fronts, the pause (that prompted the Ukrainian president to respond) will be lifted," Mr Ratcliffe said in an interview with the Fox Business channel.

"I think we will work side by side with Ukraine as we have done so far to repel aggression against it, but we made this decision to put the world in a better position for these peace negotiations to move forward," he said.

Since the beginning of the war in 2022, the United States has provided Ukraine with significant intelligence, including critical military information to strike Russian positions.

Mike Waltz, the White House National Security Advisor, told reporters on Wednesday that the United States administration is "reviewing all aspects" of its intelligence relationship with Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Mr. Waltz told CBS News that the United States is moving quickly to launch peace negotiations to end the war and sign a mineral rights agreement with Kiev.

"I think we're going to see movement in a very short time," Mr. Waltz said.

He said that President Trump administration officials will meet with Ukrainian officials as they continue diplomatic engagement with Russia.

"I just had a phone conversation with my counterpart, the national security adviser of Ukraine, and I talked to him about the time, the place of meetings between our delegations," Mr. Waltz said.

In his speech before Congress on Tuesday, President Trump said he had received a letter from Mr. Zelenskyy, in which the Ukrainian leader expressed his willingness to begin negotiations to end the war with Russia.

"Wouldn't that be a beautiful thing? It's time to stop this madness. It's time to stop the killing and to end this senseless war. If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides," Trump said during his speech to US lawmakers.

The description of the letter matched what President Zelenskyy posted earlier in the day on social media, saying that Ukraine was ready to negotiate "as soon as possible" and would "work under the strong leadership" of President Trump to reach a peace agreement."

President Zelenskyy said that the tense meeting with President Trump at the White House last Friday was "unbearable" and that he remains ready to sign the agreement that would give the United States significant and long-term rights to exploit Ukraine's rare earth minerals, needed to produce American technology products.

In a post on the X platform, the Ukrainian leader said his discussions with President Trump and Vice President JD Vance “did not go as they should. It is time to fix things. We want future cooperation and communications to be constructive.”

In the Oval Office meeting, Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance, seated next to each other, accused Mr. Zelenskyy of being ungrateful for the over $100 billion worth of ammunition that the United States has sent to Ukrainian forces to resist Moscow's aggression that began in 2022, even though the Ukrainian leader has thanked the United States on many occasions.

“We really appreciate how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence,” Mr. Zelenskyy said on Tuesday. “We remember how the situation changed when President Trump gave Ukraine” Javelins anti-tank systems. “We are grateful for that.”

"I would like to reiterate Ukraine's commitment to peace. None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible in order to achieve a lasting peace as soon as possible. No one wants peace more than Ukrainians," said Mr. Zelenskyy.

Vice President Vance told VOA on Tuesday: "We believe it is in the best interest of Russia, but also in the best interest of Ukraine and the United States, to end this conflict."

President Zelenskyy said the first phase of a ceasefire “could be the release of [Russian and Ukrainian] prisoners [that each country holds] and an air ceasefire – a ban on missiles, long-range drones, bombing of energy and civilian infrastructure in general – as well as an immediate naval ceasefire, if Russia does the same.”

“Then we want to go through all the next stages very quickly and work with the US to agree on a final, sustainable agreement,” he said.

But reaching a peace deal could be difficult. Ukraine has long sought a return to its internationally recognized borders of 2014, before Moscow unilaterally annexed the Crimean Peninsula. Russia currently controls a fifth of Ukrainian territory, including most of eastern Ukraine, and has insisted it will not return any of that territory to Kiev. /VOA


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