CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – In late 2021, NATO Intelligence Chief David Cattler traveled to Kyiv, Ukraine, simply across the time Russian President Vladimir Putin started concentrating his troops and {hardware} alongside the japanese borders of Europe’s second-largest nation. The next yr, with Putin’s “particular navy operation” absolutely underway, Cattler traveled there once more.
“I’ve visited Ukraine at the very least once-a-year, yearly I’ve been on this function,” he instructed reporters on Tuesday, through the first of a two-day batch of NATO summit conferences, largely targeted on increasing the alliance, growing navy spending, and sorting a path ahead in an expanded warfare that Cattler noticed germinating greater than 18 months in the past.
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