“The United States temporarily redeployed its CIA station in Kiev on Tuesday, a day after the State Department announced the transfer of its diplomatic corps to Lviv”, the New York Times reported, citing to the source.
Some media have been promoting the idea that Lviv may become an informal capital of the Ukrainian state.
The next update concerns Russia’s alleged cyberattacks on a number of governmnet, energy, bank enterprises in order to make a substitution for a full-scale invasion and destabilize the country. The invasion failed, but Russia is now accused of cyberattacking on Ukrainian web sites. This is reported by Washington Post.
Government-linked hackers likely infiltrated Ukraine’s critical computer systems.
According to declassified U.S. intelligence, Russian government hackers likely penetrated Ukrainian military, banking, energy and other critical computer networks extensively to gather intelligence and position themselves to potentially disrupt those systems if Russia launches a military attack on Ukraine.
According to a senior administration official, Moscow may try to disrupt the operation of Ukrainian enterprises related to electricity, transport, finance and telecommunications in order to “destabilize the country.”
Moreover, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the United States will not put pressure on Kiev to join NATO.