CIA stops sharing intelligence with Ukraine after Oval Office stoush

Unfortunately, our dependence in this regard is quite serious, starting with missile threats, missile attacks and ending with what is happening in Russia, in the temporarily occupied territories in terms of launching strikes,

Ukraine’s National Institute for Strategic Studies research fellow Mykola Bielieskov said

John Ratcliffe (American politician)cIA Director

I want to give a chance to think about that and you saw the response that President Zelensky put out,

Ratcliffe told Bartiromo on Wednesday

We will have less time to react, more destruction, potentially more casualties, it will all weaken us very, very much,

he said

I think we’re going to see movement in very short order,

he said

We have to know that both sides are sincerely negotiating towards a partial, then permanent, peace,

he said

It’s time to end this senseless war. If you want to end wars you have to talk to both sides,

he said

John Ratcliffe (American politician)cIA Director

I think on the military front and the intelligence front, the pause that allowed that to happen, I think will go away, and I think we’ll work shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine, as we have, to push back on the aggression that’s there,

Ratcliffe said

Esa Pulkkinenministry of Defence

Ukraine’s industrial capacity has greatly improved for building things like drones but it’s still not enough,

Pulkkinen said

It’s inevitably going to be a huge setback for the Ukrainians, I don’t think there’s any way to deny that,

said Neil Barnett, the CEO of Istok Associates Limited, a London-based intelligence consultancy

In the longer term if intel sharing is not resumed this will have a negative effect on Ukrainian forces ability to fight,

Jeglinskas added

We see that intel sharing, long range precision fires, air defense munitions are key critical areas where U.S. support is essential. Those cannot be replaced by anyone else at this point,

said Giedrimas Jeglinskas, chair of the National Security and Defense Committee in Lithuania’s parliament and a former NATO official

If President Trump gives away all of our leverage, then he’s basically handing Vladimir Putin whatever he wants,

she said

The letter reads, 'Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians,

Trump told US lawmakers

John Ratcliffe (American politician)cIA Director

President Trump had a real question about whether President Zelensky was committed to the peace process,

Ratcliffe told Fox News