Ukraine planned to carry out intensive attacks on Russian territory exactly one year after the start of the war. Moscow would also have been a target. Only because of the intervention of the United States, that planned offensive did not take place, reports the Washington Post. This new information comes from documents leaked by 21-year-old reservist Jack Teixeira in a chat group on the social network Discord.
The chief of the Ukrainian military intelligence service HUR had ordered a heavy strike on February 24. The date chosen by Kyrylo Budanov was full of symbolism. After all, on that day in 2022, the Russian invasion had started.
“We are going to attack with everything we have in stock,” the order read, according to a confidential report from the US intelligence agency NSA. They even dreamed of an attack at sea: with the explosive TNT the port city of Novorossiysk – deep in hostile territory – could be shaken. No Russian should feel safe anymore, was the underlying message.
Nerves on edge
However, nervousness grew in the White House. The more Russian targets are targeted, the greater the temptation for President Vladimir Putin to deploy tactical nuclear weapons. Especially if American-made weapons would also be used.
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On February 22 – two days before D-Day – a new secret CIA report emerged: the HUR had, at Washington’s friendly request, agreed to “postpone the attack on Moscow”. It was not clarified who had taken the initiative to intervene.
Cryptic
Meanwhile, deep inside Russian territory, mysterious explosions and drone strikes continue. Kiev never openly claims responsibility for it, but occasionally a cryptic description follows. “The earth is round, Galileo made that discovery. If something is launched into the airspace, unknown flying objects sooner or later return to the sender,” wrote presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak after a drone strike on a military airport in Saratov. At the end of February, drones even appeared near Moscow.
“Their illusion of security is shattered,” Budanov noted in this regard. “There are people who plant explosives. There are drones. As long as the Ukrainian territory is not fully recovered, problems will continue to crop up in Russia.”
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