{"id":266738,"date":"2023-03-24T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266738"},"modified":"2023-03-25T07:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T07:06:26","slug":"ukrainians-getting-military-targets-from-cia-satellites-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=266738","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainians getting military targets from CIA satellites \u2013 Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 March 23, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Soldiers of Ukraine\u2019s \u2018Thor\u2019 special operations group\u00a0are using satellite data provided by the CIA to choose targets when conducting drone strikes against Russian forces, the unit\u2019s commander told The Times.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-man group, which is formally a police special operations unit, functions independently from the Ukrainian army and works in close collaboration with\u00a0the country&#8217;s military intelligence, the GUR, which provides them with ammunition and intel. According to The Times, the unit has complete license to select its missions, where\u00a0it barracks and when it fights.<\/p>\n<p>The unit\u2019s commander, whose name is said to also be Thor, claims he uses a special application on a tablet that is synced to a CIA satellite to select potential targets for their attacks.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe select targets in the program, and targets can be placed there both by the CIA satellite and by our own satellite, which our volunteers pay for. Information is collected from all kinds of sources there. We choose, then we arrive and conduct our own reconnaissance,\u201d<\/em> Thor told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Another member of the group told the Times that Thor also intentionally uses drones to maim \u2013 rather than kill \u2013 Russian servicemen.<em> \u201cThese ones are to wound the Russians,\u201d<\/em> Aleksander, 30, told The Times as he armed a 3D-printed drone with mining explosives.<em> \u201cTake an arm or a leg, he will be a burden on the state forever,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Times, all members of Thor are veterans of Ukraine\u2019s 2014 military operation against anti-Kiev rebels in the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. Both territories, along with the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, were incorporated into Russia last year following public referendums.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has long accused the US and its allies of being directly involved in the Ukraine conflict and essentially waging a <em>\u201cproxy war\u201d<\/em> against Russia by continuing to provide Kiev\u2019s forces with increasingly advanced weaponry, ammunition and intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/573481-ukraine-cia-satellite-specops\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Thor\u2019 Special Operations unit uses intelligence provided by CIA satellites to maim rather than kill Russian servicemen. Because a crippled ex-soldier \u201cwill be a burden on the state forever\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266738"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266824,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266738\/revisions\/266824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}