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The Biden administration ordederd a dozen US military advisers to Kiev, later expanding it to about three dozen.
Military advisers were then sent to Ukrainian command posts.
The US Navy was ordered to share targeting information for Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian warships near Crimea in 2022.
The CIA joined the covert operations to help Ukrainian drones strike Russian vessels in the port of Sevastopol.
US and Ukrainian military officers jointly planned ‘Operation Lunar Hail’ to launch attacks across Russian Crimea using Western-supplied drones in January 2024. Bonus: Counteroffensive flop Political rows within Ukraine, rivalries between Zelensky, then-armed forces chief, General Valery Zaluzhny and Colonel General Oleksandr Syrsky in part fueled the 2023 failed counteroffensive.
