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CIA manages training program for Ukrainian paramilitaries: reports

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 14 Jan 2022 17:35
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Reports Indicate that the US Central Intelligence Agency is conducting training for Ukrainian soldiers as well as paramilitary units to "kill Russians."

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  • Azov battalion soldiers take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine in Kiev's Sophia Square before being sent to the Donbass region (RIA Novosti)
    Azov battalion soldiers take an oath of allegiance to Ukraine in Kiev's Sophia Square before being sent to the Donbass region (RIA Novosti)

The Yahoo News cited five former intelligence and national security officials familiar with the program as saying that the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been directing a secret US training program for elite Ukrainian special forces and other intelligence officers.

The news websie added that according to authorities, the CIA has been running an intensive training program for Ukrainian paramilitaries in an unknown base in the southern United States since 2015. As per a former senior intelligence officer, it was started by the Obama administration, enlarged by the Trump administration, and supplemented by the Biden administration.

The US government has stated that the program is not offensive in nature and that the goal of the training is to aid in information gathering.

Meanwhile, a former senior intelligence officer told Yahoo News that the program includes "very specific training on skills" that will help Ukraine's "ability to push back against the Russians." According to Yahoo News, another former CIA source acquainted with the program said that the US is training an insurgency and has trained the Ukrainians how to "to kill Russians."

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