Pentagon reveals top secret room that helps US monitor Ukraine
(Baonghean.vn) - CBS News reported that the Pentagon owns a top secret center whose mission is to monitor all activities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces every day.
Ria Novosti quoted CBS News as saying that the Pentagon has a special center to monitor every development in the situation in Ukraine every day.
According to a video posted on CBS News, reporters and journalists from the US television station met with the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, and were shown the room where the Pentagon monitors the activities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“Deep inside the Pentagon, in a top-secret command center, all intelligence gathered from the battlefield in Ukraine is monitored by monitors, and reported back to General Mark Milley daily” - CBS News said.
The center has been monitoring developments 24/7 since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict. The latest casualty estimates put Ukraine at 200,000 dead or wounded. Over the past 100 days, Ukrainian forces have fired artillery at what U.S. officials have called “unsustainable” levels as they try to break through the Russian front lines.
“Things are happening slower than expected, in contrast to the plans that were drawn up. But that is the difference between war on paper and real war. Because here, soldiers are really dying, and tanks are really blowing up. So, forces tend to slow down in such a context,” General Mark Milley shared.
According to General Mark Milley, maps on the command center screen showed the difficult progress of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' counterattack, facing Russian defenses of minefields, trenches, barbed wire, dragon's teeth, and small hunter-killer teams of 10 or 12 men armed with anti-tank ammunition.
General Milley also revealed that some intelligence information was transmitted to Kiev from this very top-secret room. But “the choice of target and the right to strike is Ukraine’s,” and the Pentagon’s job is to provide them with “situational awareness.”
General Milley said Ukraine's goal was to reach the Melitopol crossroads, where they could cut Russian-held territory in half, but that would be difficult once the rainy season begins in October.
“It won’t be the winter, it will be the fall rains that soften the ground, slow the advance. And if they don’t achieve their objectives, that means we’re in a war forever. Right?!” – General Mark Milley shared.
