Action in the ukraine war. this new reporting from the times would help explain why so many russian commanders and generals have found themselves on the wrong end of ukrainian missiles. and it would be consistent with nbc s own reporting from last month which said that the u.s. is providing near realtime intelligence on russia s military movements, but after the new york times published today s story, saying u.s. intelligence was helping ukraine kill russian generals, jean oru.s. military intelligence officials started pushing back in very strong terms. a spokesperson from the national security council called the story s headline misleading and called the story itself irresponsible. they said, quote, the united states provides battlefield intelligence to help the ukrainians defend their country. we do not provide intelligence with the intent to kill russian generals. end quote. but a little bit later the pentagon spokesman john kirby