Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday night that the United States had not helped Ukraine kill Russian commanders.
According to the Rasha Today website, Kirby told a news conference:
The United States provides battlefield information to assist Ukrainians in defending their country.
A Pentagon spokesman claimed:
We do not provide information on the location of senior military leaders on the battlefield and do not participate in deciding on the objectives of the Ukrainian army.
Kirby said:
Ukraine combines the information we and other partners receive and makes its own decisions and actions.
Adrienne Watson, a spokeswoman for the US National Security Council, said the intelligence provided to Ukraine was "not intended to kill Russian commanders".
The New York Times reported this week that Washington had provided Ukraine with details of the expected relocation of Russian troops and their location and other details of its mobile military bases, and that Kiev had provided intelligence assistance with artillery attacks and The other attacks, which killed Russian officers, are mixed.