by Sophia Yan
Ben Wallace accused of ordering the sacking of a Ukrainian general who failed to attack Russians
A team of British commandos escorted Ukrainian generals out of Kyiv to join an emergency war room where Western military chiefs plotted the defeat of Russia.
Two generals were taken by armed guard on diplomatic passports into Poland, then Germany, shortly after the war broke out to join an operation involving the CIA that would help turn the tide of the conflict and embarrass Vladimir Putin’s armed forces.
The operations room was set up two months into the war in Clay Kaserne, the headquarters of US Army Europe and Africa, a component of the US armed forces, in Wiesbaden, Germany.
Clay Kaserne would become a complex staging post for joint efforts involving Nato allies to assist Ukraine in fighting Russia.
Details of assistance to Ukraine were revealed on Sunday in a wide-ranging investigation by The New York Times (The NYT) that raised questions about how intimately involved the US, Britain and the West have been in the war in Ukraine.
Reports of Western military planning and intelligence sharing in the Ukraine war have emerged sporadically since the invasion but little has been known about the level of co-operation.
The details are likely to anger the Kremlin, which has long insisted that Russia is fighting a proxy war with the West and Nato through Ukraine.
The new Trump administration has already begun to roll back elements of this assistance, developments that worry many Ukrainians over the future of their country.