NY Times: Yes, it’s true that CIA is fighting Russia via Ukraine

The narrative about the outbreak of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine has been officially updated by what was once known as the “newspaper of record.”

Over the past eight years, the CIA constructed 12 “secret locations” along the Russian border with Ukraine to turn the country into an “intelligence-gathering hub” for the United States, according to a Feb. 26 report by The New York Times.

The CIA had built a network of secret outposts in Ukraine in order to gather intelligence along the Russian border even before the current war began, the report said.

The report describes how a bombed-out Ukrainian military command center on the surface has “a discreet passageway” that “descends to a subterranean bunker where teams of Ukrainian soldiers track Russian spy satellites and eavesdrop on conversations between Russian commanders. On one screen, a red line followed the route of an explosive drone threading through Russian air defenses from a point in central Ukraine to a target in the Russian city of Rostov.”

The underground bunker, built to replace the destroyed command center in the months after Russia’s invasion, is a secret nerve center of Ukraine’s military.