And the drip, drip, drip of leaks continues. The Washington Post, in a story posted yesterday, reported that Ukrainian military intelligence, headed by Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, was planning a wave of attacks inside Russia on Feb. 24, the one-year anniversary of Russia’s special military operation. Officials even mused about a sea-based strike using TNT in the Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk, the Post says, according to classified documents that were part of the trove that began leaking out about three weeks ago. On Feb. 22, two days before the anniversary, the CIA circulated a new classified report: Ukraine’s intelligence, the HUR, “had agreed, at Washington’s request, to postpone strikes” on Moscow. The documents don’t explain precisely who interceded and why the Ukrainians agreed to stand down.
Washington’s intercession ahead of the war’s anniversary appears to have been only partially successful. “There is no indication” that Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, “agreed to postpone its own plans to attack Moscow around the same date,” the CIA report said.
Budanov’s agency made plans to attack members of the Wagner PMC in Mali. “It is unknown what stage the operations [in Mali] were currently in and whether the HUR has received approval to execute its plans,” an NSA document says.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/04/24/discord-leaks-moscow-strikes-ukraine/
