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President Joe Biden told top U.S. intelligence and defense officials that leaks about U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine need to stop, according to recent reports.

Can we make russia a pariah state? part of that is labeling them as a state sponsor of terrorism. which they clearly arent, not just devastating attacks in ukraine, in their infrastructure, but murdering his opponents both in russia and abroad. so, its a move we ought to make. >> ambassador, lets say we do that. lets say we give them that label. what does it mean? what happens? >> well, it makes them a pry state. it makes it hard for anyone to financially transact with them. it makes companies t...

Decisions of the ukrainian military. ukraine combines information that, another partners provide with the intelligence that they themselves are gathering on the battlefield. and then they make their own decisions, and they take their own actions. >> and so, all of this raises a very important question if the u.s. is providing realtime intelligence that is actually leading to the killing of russians and their generals, as well as the sinking of their flagship military vessel, what sort of implica...

Provided intelligence that helped ukraine strike the ship with cruise missiles. does that level of intelligence sharing surprise you at all? >> it doesnt. it doesnt. intelligence sharing is maybe not as important as these heavy weapons. but its certainly on the same order of importance. the real time intelligence that allows the ukrainians to combine the information with other sources -- theyve got a lot of very good sources, anderson. they have -- they have ways. of course the language is helpf...

U.s. officials said they didnt know what ukraine was going to then launch, the missile strikes on the ship, and the u.s. didnt play a role in that specifically. theres a little bit of trying to distance themselves from that, though we know they provided the intelligence. the result of this was one of the most humiliating moments for the russians in the ukrainian conflict. also a big morale boost for the ukrainian forces. i think, to your question about why people are talking about this now, is t...

The equipment. the second is the training and, increasingly, ukrainians are being trained on that equipment by the united states, by western allied countries outside of ukraine. but the third element, the element that has been there since the beginning, has been the intelligence sharing. this is very classic, the way the united states and western allies will undertake an indirect warfare campaign, by sharing intelligence. both strategic intelligence, what does putin intend to do, what do his mil...

Intelligence sharing sort of a part of that aid? maybe not as public, maybe not advertised as openly, but isnt that part of what the united states would be doing for ukraine? >> yes, willie. three dimensions. one is the equipment. the second is the training. increasingly, the united states and western allies are training ukrainians outside of ukraine. thats enormously significant. and the third pillar of this indirect warfare you referenced and ambassador taylor referenced is the intelligence sh...

And, you know, its not long term to getting them to have a stronger hand in the negotiation king. >> i am wondering about provocation, though, because for so long, our officials had said they are worried about provoking russia and i have always wondered, with sending all the arms that we are sending, how does russia not see this as what they see now, a proxy war and at what point do they feel like we have crossed the line for them? and then we have new reporting out from our colleagues about int...

Thats been a key factor here in the success of the ukrainian forces so far. >> absolutely. we should not be surprised by the intelligence sharing. if you remember, before the war, as we were seeing indicators that russia was building along the border there, we started sharing intelligence. then it prompted the rest of our european allies to start sharing intelligence. so this is the first time in my military career -- granted, i served in the military almost 40 years -- where we relaxed our stan...

A key intelligence sharing system used by police to investigate extremists was dangerously flawed and unfit for purpose when it was first introduced, according to a former counter-terrorism officer.