Newsweek said Kiev’s actions and failure to heed repeated warnings from the agency could have disastrous consequences for the war, following a series of alleged Ukrainian-backed sabotage, military and intelligence officials said. The CIA reportedly issued a warning.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has openly promised not to attack Russia, and early in the war, as a condition of further U.S. support with better long-range weapons, he agreed with the U.S. to avoid attempted sabotage. A tacit “non-agreement” was signed. according to to Newsweek. But a series of mysterious attacks believed to have been perpetrated by Ukraine or pro-Ukrainian partisans, including the explosion of the Nord Stream pipeline, a truck bomb on the Kerch Strait Bridge near Crimea, and a drone attack deep in Russia, It threatens to upend the sensitive secrets of the conflict. Underworld.

“The CIA learned from the attack on the Crimean Bridge that President Zelensky did not have full control over his forces or did not want to know certain actions,” a military intelligence official told Newsweek. Zelensky has denied responsibility for the attack. (Related: Biden repeats destructive pattern in supplying weapons to Ukraine, expert says)

A senior US official told Newsweek that the CIA had no prior knowledge of the planned sabotage attack by Ukraine.

“I hesitate to say that the CIA has failed,” a senior US intelligence official told the media outlet, but the agency is concerned that increased subversive activities carried out by both parties to the conflict “could have disastrous consequences.” He added that he does.

According to Newsweek, CIA Director William Burns stopped by Kiev in January to not disrupt the fragile, traffic-rule understanding that exists among the warring parties about what is and isn’t allowed in covert operations. I repeated the warning. The conference yielded little tangible results.

“Kiev was beginning to taste the possibility of victory and was therefore more willing to take risks,” said a second senior intelligence official.

In CIA-led secret negotiations involving Ukraine and dozens of other unnamed countries, Kiev agreed not to use long-range weapons provided by the United States to attack Russia.

“Mr Zelensky is certainly better than everyone else when it comes to getting what he wants, but Kiev had to agree to follow certain invisible lines as well.” A senior defense intelligence official told Newsweek.

Newsweek reports that as they try to ensure a reliable flow of information about what President Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin are thinking and planning, CIA operators stationed at bases near Ukraine He has embarked on multiple missions in the country. The personnel also assist Ukrainians in operating US weapons and systems, first reported by The New York Times in June 2022. According to Newsweek, most of these operations have not been made public.

All CIA operations are aimed at avoiding direct conflict with Russian forces, officials said.

“The CIA operates inside Ukraine under strict rules and limits on the number of people who can be in the country at one time,” another senior military intelligence official told the media. “Black special operators are restricted from carrying out covert missions, and if they do, they do so within very narrow limits.”

Some countries, such as Britain and Poland, have proven willing to take bigger risks than the US would like, while Ukraine’s neighbors fear more antagonism from Putin.

“In my humble opinion, the CIA fails to understand the nature of the Ukrainian state and the reckless factions that exist there,” a senior Polish government official told Newsweek on condition of anonymity.

The CIA did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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