Geo located it and attacked his location, killing him and his staff, end quote. the detail about ukrainian tracking russian military leaders through unsecured phones and radios was first reported in the very last paragraph of a new york times story by reporters helene cooper, julian bernstein, barnes and eric schmidt. we ve seen since then astounding number of reports about russian military leaders being killed in action in ukraine. now, nbc news cannot verify each and every one of these reports, but at least a few of them have been verified by news outlets like the new york times, and even by russian media itself. today we got this provocative headline from the times. quote, u.s. intelligence is helping ukraine kill russian generals, officials say. now, the story is written by the same three reporters who broke that story about the russian generals being targeted through their phones just three weeks into the war. according to the new report, the united states has been
Providing ukraine with intelligence on russia s military units which, quote, has allowed ukrainians to target and kill many of the russian generals who died in 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 the ukrainian missiles. it would also be consistent with nbc news 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 that u.s. intelligence was helping ukraine kill russian generals, senior u.s. military and intelligence officials started pushing back in very strong terms. a spokesperson from the national security council called the story headline misleading and called the story itself irresponsible. they said, quote, the united states provides battlefield intelligence to help the ukrainians defend their country.
Cooper, julian bernstein, eric schmidt. since then we ve seen as sounding number of reports about senior level russian military leaders being killed in action in ukraine. now, nbc news cannot verify each and every one of these reports, but at least a few of them have been verified by news outlets like the new york times, and even by russian media itself. today we got this provocative headline from the times. quote, u.s. intelligence is helping ukraine kill russian generals, officials say. now, the story is written by the same three reporters who broke that story about the russian generals being targeted through their phones just three weeks into the war. according to the new report, the united states has been providing ukraine with intelligence on russia s military units which, quote, has allowed ukrainians to target and kill many of the russian generals who died in action in the ukraine war. this new reporting from the times would help explain why so many russian commanders and genera
Ukrainian missiles. it would also be consistent with nbc news s own reporting from last month, which said that the u.s. is providing neil realtime intelligence sharing on russia s military movements, but after the new york times published today s story saying that u.s. intelligence was helping ukraine kill russian generals, senior u.s. military intelligence officials started pushing back in very strong terms. a spokesperson from the national security council called the stories 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, and quote. but a little bit later, the pentagon spokesman john kirby also said that. we do not provide intelligence on the location of senior military leaders on the battlefield, or participate in the targeting decisions of the
Leaders through unsecured phones and radios was first reported in the very last paragraph of a new york times story by reporters helene cooper, julian barnes and eric schmitt. since then, we ve seen an astounding number of reports about senior level russian military leaders killed in action in ukraine. now, nbc news cannot verify each and every one of these reports but at least a few of them have been verified by news outlets likele new york times and even by russian media itself and today we got this provocative headline from the times, u.s. intelligence is helping ukraine kill russian generals, officials say. now, the story is written by the same three reporters who broke that story about the russian generals being targeted through their phones, just three weeks into the war. according to the new report, the united states has been providing ukraine with intelligence on russia s military units which quote has allowed ukrainians to target and kill many of the russian generals who