Citing unnamed US officials, CNN reported Monday that the Biden administration was in the early stages of considering sending US special operations forces into Ukraine to guard the recently reopened US embassy in Kyiv.
The US embassy in Kyiv was shuttered before Russia invaded Ukraine and was reopened last week. US Marines typically guard overseas diplomatic facilities, but the Kyiv embassy is currently being guarded by State Department security personnel.
The CNN report said that there was a consensus in the Biden administration that Marines might not be suited to protect the Kyiv embassy due to the uncertain security situation. The officials said that the US doesn’t think Russia will purposely target the embassy but is concerned that Russian air defenses or missiles could inadvertently hit the compound.
The potential special operations deployment was reported by several other media outlets. In comments to The Hill, the Pentagon said that “no decisions have been made — and no specific proposals have been debated — at senior levels of the department about the return of US military members to Ukraine for that or any other purpose.”
Sending special operators or any other types of troops into Ukraine would mark an escalation from the Biden administration whether or not they are there to guard the embassy as it creates a potential tripwire. While Russian troops have withdrawn from areas near Kyiv, the Russian military could still launch strikes on the city.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was asked Monday if the US might send special operators into Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces. He said the US was only training Ukrainian troops in locations outside of the country. Addressing the media reports on sending special operators to guard the embassy, Milley said, “Those are planning efforts that are underway at a relatively low level.”
“At the end of the day, any reintroduction of US forces into Ukraine would require presidential decisions. So we’re a way’s away from anything like that, we’re still developing courses of action and none of that’s been presented yet to the secretary,” Milley added.
What???? Kiev is more than safe!! it is overrun by officials from all the Western world running around like headless chickens then hugging President king of the world Volodymyr to ensure their unlimited support for him. Lord (sic) Austin now says Ukrainians have to decide their future!!! After 3 months of US∕NATO secretly in charge!!!
“After 3 months of US∕NATO secretly in charge!”
Not exactly a well kept secret.
You got that right. Whenever Z utters the words negotiation and peace, he gets slapped down by us/nato.
At the start of the war the US embassy and its slave states immediately chickened off to the only Nazi capital in the world, Lvov, were they can enjoy plenty statues of Nazi war criminals, swastika parades and drink coffee in antisemitic cafe’s. They have still no reliable info on what the Russian plan is after taking out the bulk of the ukie army in Donbass pretty soon, but to successfully denazify the ukraine Lvov and it’s surroundings won’t obviously be left as a festering Nazi cesspool for too long. US better move it’s command centre/ embassy to Poland…
The Russian plan was to feint taking Kiev, while lining up in Donbas. The feint occupied Ukraine mechanized units and a bunch of ground troops, allowing Russian troops to lay seize on port cities.
US special operations forces = assassins
And labeled terrorists if other countries have them.
Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, May 7, 1999, NATO very deliberately bombed it with precision guided weapons into a specific window aimed at an intelligence target (stealth materials lost from an F-117 shot down).
So would Russia do what NATO did?
Would the Chinese object?
How many personnel? Thousands? How many combat vehicles? Will Patriot missiles be deployed? US behaving like Apes.