U.S. suspends intelligence sharing with Ukraine, officials say
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It was another turbulent day for America's new policy toward Ukraine. The U.S. and Ukrainian |
| 0:06.1 | national security advisor spoke, and both sides said talks are moving in a, quote, positive |
| 0:11.7 | direction to secure a minerals deal and accelerate peace talks with Russia. But U.S. officials also |
| 0:17.9 | confirmed the U.S. has paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine, |
| 0:21.6 | which it has relied on in the battlefield. |
| 0:24.4 | Nick Schifrin joins us now with the latest. |
| 0:26.5 | So, Nick, what has the U.S. paused and how important is it? |
| 0:29.8 | Senior U.S. officials today confirm that as part of the overall pause, |
| 0:33.8 | ordered by President Trump, that includes military aid, all intelligence and information sharing will be paused. |
| 0:40.3 | And that was confirmed this morning on Fox Business by CIA Director John Ratcliffe. |
| 0:44.3 | President Trump had a real question about whether President Zelensky was committed to the peace process. |
| 0:50.3 | And he said, let's pause. And so I think on the military front and the intelligence front, |
| 0:55.4 | the pause that allowed that to happen, I think we'll go away and I think we'll work |
| 1:00.8 | shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine as we have to push back on the aggression that's there. |
| 1:06.9 | Now, the U.S. provides both offensive and defensive intelligence information to Ukraine. |
| 1:12.8 | Let's talk about the defense first. |
| 1:14.2 | The U.S. gives Ukraine radar and situational awareness of Russian launches inside of Russia. |
| 1:21.6 | And Belarus, think Russian jets with bombs that hit Ukraine, Russian drones, Russian missiles. |
| 1:26.4 | A U.S. official and a congressional official |
| 1:28.7 | understand to me that this kind of, quote, imminent force protection will be exempted. |
| 1:34.4 | And that means that the air defense cooperation, the air alert system cooperation will continue |
| 1:41.9 | in Ukraine. Here's the offensive, though. Two congressional officials |
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