Officials from the US intelligence community gave senior government and military officials a heads-up that Wagner Group commander Yevgeny Prigozhin was going to turn his forces on his overseers in the Russian military on Wednesday, the New York Times reports. The information about the coup came in days before the Wednesday briefing, but agency teams worked to confirm and analyze the information before sending it up the ladder.
It’s unclear if the US shared that information with Kyiv, allowing the Ukrainian military to leverage the expected unrest in the ranks and the gaps in the line. Congressional leaders were advised of the intelligence Thursday, which obviously triggered Kevin McCarthy to push Lauren Boebert’s impeachment bill to committee to cover up for Hunter Biden’s laptop because of the millions of dollars coming from China.