🧵1/ The CIA helped rebuild Ukraine’s shattered spy services after 2014.
What they created is now one of the most feared covert forces on Earth — a modern-day Mossad that hunts Russian war criminals across 3 continents.
Now, the U.S. can’t stop what it started👇
What they created is now one of the most feared covert forces on Earth — a modern-day Mossad that hunts Russian war criminals across 3 continents.
Now, the U.S. can’t stop what it started👇
2/ After 2014, Ukraine’s spy agencies were riddled with Russian moles and dysfunction.
The CIA stepped in.
They trained a new generation, poured millions into covert capabilities, and helped rebuild Ukraine's defense intellgience (HUR).
The CIA stepped in.
They trained a new generation, poured millions into covert capabilities, and helped rebuild Ukraine's defense intellgience (HUR).
3/ By 2025, Ukraine’s intel services are:
Assassinating generals in Moscow
Blowing up Russian bombers with drones hidden in delivery trucks
Arming rebels in Syria
Helping kill 80+ Wagner mercenaries in Mali
Attacking Wagner in Sudan
Assassinating generals in Moscow
Blowing up Russian bombers with drones hidden in delivery trucks
Arming rebels in Syria
Helping kill 80+ Wagner mercenaries in Mali
Attacking Wagner in Sudan
4/ Kyiv wages psychological warfare.
Ukraine’s message to the Kremlin is simple:
You are no longer safe. Not in Moscow. Not in Africa. Not anywhere.
Kyiv can hunt down russian war criminals anywhere.
Ukraine’s message to the Kremlin is simple:
You are no longer safe. Not in Moscow. Not in Africa. Not anywhere.
Kyiv can hunt down russian war criminals anywhere.
5/ Operation “Spider Web” (June 2025) by Ukraine Security Services (SBU):
🇺🇦 smuggled 117 drones into Russia
🇷🇺 13 strategic bombers destroyed
💸 $7B in damage
🔥 Targets hit 4,000 km away
🇺🇦 smuggled 117 drones into Russia
🇷🇺 13 strategic bombers destroyed
💸 $7B in damage
🔥 Targets hit 4,000 km away
6/ HUR chief, General Kyrylo Budanov.
“If you’re asking about Mossad as being famous [for]… eliminating enemies of their state, then we were doing it and we will be doing it,” said Budanov.
“We don’t need to create anything because it already exists.”
“If you’re asking about Mossad as being famous [for]… eliminating enemies of their state, then we were doing it and we will be doing it,” said Budanov.
“We don’t need to create anything because it already exists.”
7/ HUR's symbol
An owl piercing Russia’s heart — a direct reply to Russia’s Spetsnaz motto: “Above us only stars.”
Ukraine’s answer: “Only the wise rule the stars.”
Budanov even keeps live owls at base.
The Kremlin tried to smear the emblem as “fascist” and “extremist”
An owl piercing Russia’s heart — a direct reply to Russia’s Spetsnaz motto: “Above us only stars.”
Ukraine’s answer: “Only the wise rule the stars.”
Budanov even keeps live owls at base.
The Kremlin tried to smear the emblem as “fascist” and “extremist”
8/ @WarintheFuture, a former Australian major general argued that Ukraine’s growing reach — from Africa to the Middle East — sends a clear signal: the West has far less to fear from Russia than it imagines.
9/ Kyiv never stops crossing russia’s "red lines."
It does over and over again.
The U.S. feared escalation.
Ukraine embraced it — and exposed the Kremlin’s bluff.
The Kremlin usually stays silent, as it can't acknowledge Kyiv's growing power and reach.
It does over and over again.
The U.S. feared escalation.
Ukraine embraced it — and exposed the Kremlin’s bluff.
The Kremlin usually stays silent, as it can't acknowledge Kyiv's growing power and reach.
10/ In the years to come, NATO intelligence services will look to their Ukrainian counterparts not as students, but as peers.
Ukraine has already shown what it means to punch above its weight.
Ukraine has already shown what it means to punch above its weight.
11/ Both the West and russia don't understand Ukraine.
This is a nation, after all, that the current CIA Director John Ratcliffe recently described as willing to “fight with their bare hands if they have to, if they don’t have terms that are acceptable to an enduring peace.”
This is a nation, after all, that the current CIA Director John Ratcliffe recently described as willing to “fight with their bare hands if they have to, if they don’t have terms that are acceptable to an enduring peace.”
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