Trump was not informed of a recent Ukrainian attack on Russia, The Hill’s sister network NewsNation confirmed Sunday.

According to NewsNation’s Tanya Noury, an administration official said the president was not given a heads-up about the drone attack that a Ukrainian security official alleged destroyed more than 40 planes well within Russian territory, according to The Associated Press.

  • Chris@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Honestly this attack was so insane I don’t know how Russia could have done anything about it, even if Trump leaked it at the final hour.

    • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      It was being prepared for 1.5 years, from what I’ve heard, so there was a lot to moving parts that could have been screwed up if the information was leaked. At the final hour - maybe not much could have been done to prevent it, but it would have been significantly harder to extract Ukrainian operatives who were involved within Russia.

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      Whoa, you weren’t kidding. I just read the news and saw they damaged 40 planes, damn!