The CIA has refuted simultaneous claims by US President Donald Trump and russian president vladimir putin that Ukrainian troops are surrounded in the Kursk Oblast, Reuters reported.
Last week, US intelligence agencies, including the CIA, shared their reports with the White House, but Trump continued to claim that Ukrainian troops are surrounded in the Kursk Oblast in western russia. Officials said that US and European intelligence assessments indicate that Ukrainian troops are facing strong pressure from russian forces, but they are not completely surrounded, Reuters sources said.
The publication's experts reportedly said that putin's March 13 statement that Ukrainian troops in the Kursk Oblast were cut off and would eventually have to "surrender or die" was disinformation designed to show that russia was offering concessions to save the lives of Ukrainian soldiers, which gives putin leverage in ceasefire negotiations.
We will recall that earlier the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that information about the alleged encirclement of Ukrainian army units in the Kursk Oblast of the aggressor country of russia was untrue and a fake.
On March 13, members of the Verkhovna Rada refused to summon the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Oleksandr Syrskyi, to the National Security Committee over the situation in the Kursk Oblast.
The Kremlin is likely preparing to intensify the narrative of alleged "war crimes" by the AFU in the Kursk Oblast of the russian federation, trying to discredit the Ukrainian army, undermine Western support for Ukraine, and sabotage or delay negotiations on a 30-day ceasefire that US President Donald Trump offered to dictator putin.
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