Ukraine does not share details of upcoming counteroffensive with US and other partners

Politico reported the information, citing European officials. 

The new privacy policy is primarily related to the leak of classified Pentagon documents provoked by Massachusetts Air Force Guardsman Jack Teixeira. Kyiv has refrained from sharing information about the counteroffensive, including its timing.

Ukraine is likely to share some basic data with the US and other EU countries that have supported it with weapons over the past year. But Ukrainian officials are likely working to prevent details related to battlefield planning from being shared.

A Ukrainian lawmaker, speaking on condition of anonymity, said officials in Kyiv are also hiding details of the counteroffensive from other politicians in the capital.

"There are only a few people in the country that know the plan," the lawmaker said.

A US Defense Department spokesman said there had been no change, with Washington and Kyiv still exchanging information at the same level. There were no signs that Ukraine was hiding anything from the US.

John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, when asked by journalists whether the White House feared that the Ukrainians would withhold information, said that silence before a counteroffensive would not be a surprise.

"They don’t have an obligation to notify us or tell us in advance," he said.

• Russia is already preparing the information space for the Russians with the intention of reducing the shock of the Ukrainian soldiers' successes: local propaganda media have been given instructions to cover the upcoming counteroffensive.