American intelligence agencies gave highly sensitive data to the Ukrainian armed forces that allowed them to trace and kill a dozen Russian generals and sink the Russian flagship Moskva, a latest book reveals — despite strident administration denials.
A “furious” President Joe Biden gave “presidential tongue-lashings” to CIA chief Bill Burns and other top aides in May after leakers told NBC News and the Recent York Times that Ukrainians had been given real-time intelligence from US sources.
“He didn’t like what he considered to be publicly taunting the Russians,” White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain told creator Chris Whipple within the forthcoming book “The Fight of His Life,” out Jan. 17.
The reports of secret streams of real-time battlefield intelligence drew a furious response from the Kremlin — and fast repudiation from the Pentagon, the National Security Council, and Biden’s press office.
“We don’t provide intelligence with the intent to kill Russian generals,” NSC spokesperson Adrienne Wilson said May 5.
“We didn’t provide Ukraine with specific targeting information for the Moskva,” insisted Jen Psaki, then the White House’s press secretary. “We weren’t involved within the Ukrainians’ decision to strike the ship or within the operation they carried out.”
The Post has obtained a replica of the book, which incorporates a string of revelations about Biden’s disastrous pullout from Afghanistan and other incidents from the primary two years of his administration.