Published September 07,2024
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The heads of the U.S. CIA and Britain’s spy service mentioned in an op-ed on Saturday that “staying the course” in backing Ukraine’s struggle towards Russia was extra vital than ever they usually vowed to additional their cooperation there and on different challenges.
The op-ed within the Financial Times by CIA Director William Burns and Richard Moore, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, was the primary ever collectively authored by heads of their businesses.
“The partnership lies at the beating heart of the special relationship between our countries,” they wrote, noting that their providers marked 75 years of partnership two years in the past.
The businesses “stand together in resisting an assertive Russia and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine,” they mentioned.
“Staying the course (in Ukraine) is more vital than ever. Putin will not succeed in extinguishing Ukraine’s sovereignty and independence,” they mentioned, including their businesses would proceed aiding Ukrainian intelligence.
Russian forces have been slowly advancing in japanese Ukraine, Ukrainian troops have been occupying a big swath of Russia’s Kursk area and Kyiv has been pleading for extra U.S. and Western air defenses.
The spy chiefs mentioned their businesses would hold working to thwart a “reckless campaign of sabotage across Europe by Russian intelligence” and its “cynical use of technology” to unfold disinformation “to drive wedges between us.”
Russia has denied pursuing sabotage and disinformation campaigns towards the U.S. and different Western international locations.
Burns and Moore famous that they’d reorganized their businesses to adapt to the rise of China, which they known as “the principle intelligence and geopolitical challenge of the 21st Century.”
The businesses, they mentioned, additionally “have exploited our intelligence channels to push hard restraint and de-escalation” within the Middle East, and are working for a truce in Gaza that would finish the “appalling loss of life of Palestinian civilians” and see Hamas launch hostage it seized in its Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
Burns is the chief U.S. negotiator in talks to succeed in a deal.
Source: www.anews.com.tr