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Welcome to Spycraft, a podcast that
tells gripping life and death spy stories and

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the amazing devices and operations that made
them possible. Now, let's get started

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on a new ER's story of The
New York Times article sheds light on a

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CI's extensive involvement in the Ukraine over
the past decade. According to the report,

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the CI has been fostering cooperation with
Ukrainian intelligence agencies since twenty fourteen,

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called the Maidan Coup, and has
since established a network of twelve secret spy

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bases along the Russian border. These
bases have been instrumental in gallery intelligence and

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Russian troop movements, can be coordinating
drone strikes and managing a network of agents.

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This could have been what Putin was
referring to when he had that Tucker

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Carlson interview when he said, how
would you like it if we were on

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your side of the border in Mexico. I'm not sure if it is or

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it isn't. The collaboration has been
and is so successful, the KIEVA has

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become one of Washington's most important intelligence
partners. The CAA has also helped train

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a new generation of Ukrainian spies who
operate globally against Russia. The revelation of

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these secret spy bases as significant implications
for the ongoing conflict. Not sure why

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The New York Times provided it,
but there it is. It highlights the

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role of the United States and the
region and the links to which it is

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willing to go to protect its interests. The situation remains complex and delicate,

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with potential consequences, of course,
for international relations and geopolitical stability. Around

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twenty sixteen, the CIA began training
the Ukrainian Detachment twenty two to forty five,

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which captured Russian drones and communications equipment
so that the CIA could hack them.

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One of the officers of the unit
was Killa Budhanaff, the current head

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of the GUR. The CIA also
helped train a new generation have mentioned of

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Ukrainian spies were operated not just in
Russia, as we said, but also

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across Europe and in Cuba. Of
further information such a American in Vomit could

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be one of the factors and formed
the basis for Putin's decision to launch an

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invasion of Ukraine. As we mentioned
before, this could be one of them.

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According to a senior European official,
At the end of twenty twenty one,

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Putin was considering whether to launch a
full scale invasion. He met with

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the head of one of Russian's main
spy services, who told them that the

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CIA, along with the MI six, controlled Ukraine and turned it into a

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springboard for operations against Moscow. This
is the New York Times. Interesting indeed,

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whether we get the truth, I
don't know, but it definitely brings

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a little bit of light to that
Chucker interview.