Russia can reconstitute itself as a “serious threat” to Ukraine in the long term despite the “serious” disorders it faces in troop mobilization, a US-based think tank said.
The Institute for War Studies (ISW) reports that senior Ukrainian official Oleksiy Hromov said Russian mobilization efforts were “stalled” as other people are aware of the Russian casualty rate in the war.
According to the SIE, Mr. Hromov, head of the main operational direction of the General Staff of Ukraine, said that the Volgograd region in Russia reached 7% of its recruitment quota, while in Saratov this figure reached 14%.
He also said Moscow is creating “alternative” personal military corporations to fill the gaps, but said they “will not be as powerful” as Wagner’s mercenary organization “in the near future. “
However, Ukraine and its allies “should underestimate the long-term functions of generating Russian forces for a protracted war of attrition,” the official said.
The group of experts has already issued warnings.
But he said the Kremlin had yet to adopt the “necessary reorganization of its war effort to take good advantage of economies of scale for the generation of large-scale Russian forces. “
An American politician has defended the suspect from the leak of a package of highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine.
Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who sits on the U. S. Homeland Security Committee. In the U. S. , he took to Twitter after National Guard Jack Teixeira was arrested over the leaks.
She says Teixeira “told the truth” and even hinted that Joe Biden’s tenure is “the real enemy” because he is “waging a war in Ukraine, a non-NATO nation, opposed to nuclear Russia without war powers. “
His comments sparked a backlash online, with many calling for it from his position on the Homeland Security Committee.
Greene’s prospects were at odds with comments from a handful of Republicans who weighed in on the arrest praising law enforcement and demanding accountability for the leak.
A National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents, which offer a snapshot of the war in Ukraine, will appear in court later today.
Jack Teixeira is charged with cutting off or transmitting classified national defense information, which is a crime under the National Espionage Act.
The 21-year-old’s arrest raises new questions about America’s ability with its most sensitive secrets, and the Pentagon pledged to step up security measures.
He described the leak as a “very serious threat to national security,” but officials are under pressure over why such a young, lower-ranking service member had access to the files.
Read the rest of our most sensible account of this morning here. . .
Welcome back to our Ukraine war policy where we will bring you all the news about the crisis.
Here’s a reminder of yesterday:
Our US correspondent, Mark Stone, takes a quick day’s inventory investigating leaked U. S. military documents. Some of which are similar to the war in Ukraine.
A leak, a stunning security breach, tension in U. S. alliances. On Thursday afternoon, it all ended dramatically in a rural corner of Massachusetts.
The day’s events extended very temporarily and did not begin, as might have been expected, with government advances investigating the leak, but with a series of notable investigations through the media.
First, a Washington Post scoop that an individual had leaked the data to a small circle of friends online on a social media platform called Discord, which is popular with gamers.
The Post received an interview with a member of the organization who claimed the documents circulated beyond the closed matrix.
Late this morning, the New York Times, in collaboration with open-source investigators Bellingcat, published virtual proof that they claimed they knew Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Air National Guard, as the leader of the Discord organization where the documents are located. It first appeared.
Reporters stood at the door of his circle of relatives’ home in rural Massachusetts as the Pentagon spokesman struggled to sit still because of a flood of questions about the morning’s revelations.
But as Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder spoke, an arrest was made.
Cable news networks already had their helicopters over rural Massachusetts and were broadcasting footage of heavily armed FBI agents arriving and then arresting Jack Teixeira.
U. S. Attorney General Merrick Garland later issued a confirmation that the news audience had just watched.
It turns out that the U. S. government is in the process of doing so. The U. S. has been on their shoulders in each and every case in this case. Now they claim to have their filterer. It will go through the courts. It will relieve them, at least, that he does not look like a foreign agent.
But they have many questions to answer: How did a 21-year-old Air National Guard member obtain those documents?Were there more classified documents there?Why did it take so long, with the help of the media, to locate him?
More broadly, America’s allies want to be assured that their secrets are in American hands. Trust will have to be rebuilt beyond the damage they already know has been done.
Footage emerged of the moment a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard arrested through federal agents outside his home.
Investigators from the guard, who specializes in intelligence, ran the online discussion organization where the documents were posted.
Earlier in the day, FBI agents gathered at Teixeira’s Massachusetts home and heavily armed tactical agents arrested Teixeira, who was wearing a T-shirt and shorts, in custody.
He will have his first in federal court in Massachusetts.
The Pentagon hastened to locate the source of the leak of a package of highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine.
Interestingly, the documents appeared on an online gaming forum. The United States is now achieving damage control to reassure its allies.
The accuracy of the dozens of leaked slides has been questioned.
But they appear to reveal potential vulnerabilities in Ukrainian defenses, as well as the number of British special forces supposedly active in the country.
So what are the main revelations of the documents and what is the reaction?Sky News looks at unfolding scandal. . .
Cyprus is investigating how one of its citizens ended up on U. S. sanctions lists. The U. S. and the U. K. allegedly cooperated with sanctioned Russians.
Cyprus-based entities and the Americans were included in the UK and US sanctions lists. The U. S. government is responsible for facilitating business transactions through Americans who are already under sanctions.
And today, Nikos Christodoulides, the president, convened an assembly with close advisers to discuss the issue, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbomitis said.
“It was to investigate the data that led to the imposition of sanctions,” he said.
Cyprus, where many with Russian-backed interests have operations, follows EU sanctions opposing Russia imposed over its invasion of Ukraine.
The scenes in the United States are “extraordinary” and have reverberated around the world, U. S. correspondent Mark Stone said.
FBI agents were filmed arresting Jack Teixeira from an investigation into leaking army documents revealing Ukrainian war secrets.
Describing the scenes unfolding in a corner of suburban Massachusetts, Stone says, “Extraordinary photographs of an FBI armored vehicle coming into an alley, then the guy they were looking for to interview, not much more than a kid, as you can see, and then told to slowly back up toward the agents.
“Then they take him by the arms and handcuff him and chase him away for a harsh interrogation, I imagine. “
Officials will now check how Teixeira received the sensitive documents and whether there are other sensitive documents in his home, he said.
“These are all questions to which they will urgently ask for answers. “
U. S. Attorney General Merrick Garland provides an update on the investigation of army escapes.
It showed that officials arrested Jack Teixeira based on their investigation and charged him with unauthorized deletion of classified national defense information.
The 21-year-old was taken into custody by FBI agents “without incident” and will have his first court appearance, Garland added.
He takes a moment to thank them for their “diligent work” on the case and says more data will be shared at the appropriate time.
Theirs is brief and hounds don’t have a chance to ask questions.