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A Ukrainian soldier on the border with separatist-controlled Donetsk
THE CIA is training Ukrainian special forces and intelligence services as part of preparations for a potential armed insurgency, according to five former intelligence and national security officials.
The secretive programme is based at an undisclosed location in the southern United States, the officials claimed.
It is run by paramilitaries from the CIA ground branch, part of the agency’s special activities division, and could play a crucial role as tensions mount on Ukraine’s eastern border.
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
As Britain marks 80 years since defeating fascism, it finds itself in a proxy war against Russia over Ukraine — DANIEL POWELL examines Churchill’s secret plan to attack our Soviet allies in 1945 and traces how Nato expansion, a Western-backed coup and neo-nazi activism contributed to todays' devastating conflict
Meanwhile, a top Russian general is killed in car bomb attack outside his flat near Moscow
