{"id":62578,"date":"2022-05-06T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62578"},"modified":"2022-05-06T07:11:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:11:52","slug":"us-intel-assisted-in-sinking-russian-flagship-vessel-officials-claim-bombshell-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62578","title":{"rendered":"US Intel Assisted In Sinking Russian Flagship Vessel: Officials Claim Bombshell Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__Eyn7V\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__MEgbb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-intel-assisted-sinking-russian-flagship-vessel-officials-say-bombshell-revelation\">US Intel Assisted In Sinking Russian Flagship Vessel: Officials Claim Bombshell Escalation<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__t4rGu\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__6iJOI NodeBody_container__hI8PI\">\n<p>Less than 24 hours after\u00a0<em>The New York Time<\/em>s issued a provocative report citing unnamed US officials who are celebrating that American intelligence-sharing with Ukraine&#8217;s military has helped\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-intelligence-has-helped-kill-multiple-russian-generals-ukraine\">take out multiple Russian generals<\/a>\u00a0since the Feb.24 invasion, NBC News<em>\u00a0<\/em>is out with yet another bombshell claim sourced to\u00a0<s>the deep state<\/s>\u00a0US intel officials.<\/p>\n<p>Amid what seems escalation after escalation, and new revelations of Washington&#8217;s deepening and perhaps increasingly direct role in fighting Russia in Ukraine, NBC<em>\u00a0<\/em>brings us\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/us-intel-helped-ukraine-sink-russian-flagship-moskva-officials-say-rcna27559\">this doozy<\/a>&#8230; &#8220;<strong>Intelligence shared by the U.S. helped\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0sink the Russian cruiser Moskva<\/strong>, U.S. officials told NBC News, confirming an American role in perhaps the most embarrassing blow to Vladimir Putin\u2019s troubled invasion of Ukraine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/Moskvasinking.jpg?itok=HSXUQ1Y5\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"335a5999-0db8-432a-8242-fb1bb751d92b\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><figcaption><em>Image later leaked of the April 15 sinking of the Moskva<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a reminder of just how hugely significant the claim is &#8211; and just how\u00a0<em>dangerous<\/em>\u00a0in terms of representing a massive escalation &#8211; the\u00a0<strong><em>Moskva<\/em>\u00a0was considered the flagship of Russia\u2019s Black Sea Fleet, had 510 crewmen on board<\/strong>\u00a0before Neptune anti-cruise ship missiles scored a direct hit in mid-April, and was\u00a0<strong>the most embarrassing single blow to President Putin&#8217;s war effort<\/strong>\u00a0of the whole conflict thus far.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The attack happened after Ukrainian forces asked the Americans about a ship sailing in the Black Sea south of Odesa, U.S. officials told NBC News,&#8221; the report continues. &#8220;The U.S. identified it as the Moskva, officials said, and\u00a0<strong>helped confirm its location, after which the Ukrainians targeted the ship<\/strong>.&#8221; This comes after the NY Times\u00a0revealed in a report the night prior that much of the intel-sharing is focused on Russian troop and equipment movements.<\/p>\n<p>According to further details based on anonymous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/national-security\/us-intel-helped-ukraine-sink-russian-flagship-moskva-officials-say-rcna27559\">US senior officials<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images\" role=\"group\"><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Intel Assisted In Sinking Russian Flagship Vessel: Officials Claim Bombshell Escalation Less than 24 hours after\u00a0The New York Times issued a provocative report citing unnamed US officials who are celebrating that American intelligence-sharing with Ukraine&#8217;s military has helped\u00a0take out multiple Russian generals\u00a0since the Feb.24 invasion, NBC News\u00a0is out with yet another bombshell claim sourced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1921,694,821,827,5906,862,865,1823,4318],"class_list":["post-62578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-new-york-times","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-us-intelligence","tag-war","tag-washington","tag-world-war-3","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62579,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62578\/revisions\/62579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}