US lying about involvement in Kursk attack – Putin aide
Western intelligence services helped Ukraine plan the raid, Nikolai Patrushev has insisted
”The US leadership’s claims of non-involvement in Kiev's actions in the Kursk Region do not correspond to reality… Without their participation and direct support, Kiev would not have ventured into Russian territory,” Patrushev told Izvestia in an interview published on Friday.
The adviser to President Vladimir Putin, who has recently been appointed to oversee Russia’s global maritime strategy, emphasized that the “West put the criminal junta at the head of Ukraine," while "NATO countries have supplied Kiev with weapons, military instructors, and continuous intelligence while controlling the actions of neo-Nazis.”
”This criminal action stems from the premonition of the imminent collapse of the neo-Nazi Kiev regime,” Patrushev said, adding that “the residents of Ukraine are suffering for the sake of American interests, as the US has turned the country into a military anti-Russian project.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/602665-kursk-attack-us-lies-patrushev/
CIA Sees Kursk Raid As Having 'Punctured The Hubris' Of Putin
President Joe Biden said this week that he was in "constant contact" with the Ukrainians related to the ongoing invasion of Kursk oblast. "I’ve spoken with my staff on a regular basis probably every four or five hours for the last six or eight days,” Biden told reporters about the fighting in Kursk, which is now at a week-and-a-half.
"And it’s — it’s creating a real dilemma for Putin. And we’ve been in direct contact — constant contact with — with the Ukrainians," he added. "That’s all I’m going to say about it while it’s active."
From the start, US officials have acted like they were in the dark the whole time as to Ukraine's plans, likely for the purpose of plausible deniability and so Kiev isn't seen by Moscow as having been directly backed by NATO in the brazen cross-border operation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/cia-sees-kursk-raid-having-punctured-hubris-putin