I put this together, but don't have anyone to share it with. Hope someone here can benefit from it. This is not supposed to be definitive anything. Just sources showing the US has been meddling behind the scenes of Ukraine since after WW2 at least. Sept 28th 2022 US announces $1.1 billion more in military aid for Ukraine https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-poised-to-provide-11-billion-more-in-aid-to-ukraine/2022/09/28/4f96ab4a-3f4b-11ed-8c6e-9386bd7cd826_story.html  WASHINGTON — The U.S. will provide an additional $1.1 billion in aid to Ukraine, with funding for 18 more advanced rocket systems and other weapons to counter drones that Russia has been using against Ukrainian troops, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. The latest package is being provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which funds contracts to purchase weapons and equipment. And it brings the total of U.S. aid to Ukraine to nearly $17 billion since the Biden administration took office. Sep 16, 2022 Since 2014, the United States has provided more than $19 billion in security assistance for training and equipment to help Ukraine preserve its territorial integrity, secure its borders, and improve interoperability with NATO. https://www.state.gov/u-s-security-cooperation-with-ukraine/#:~:text=Since%202014%2C%20the%20United%20States,and%20improve%20interoperability%20with%20NATO. https://www.devex.com/news/funding-tracker-who-s-sending-aid-to-ukraine-102887 Devex’s Funding Platform has recorded more than $100 billion in commitments for Ukraine between Feb. 24 and Aug. 16. However, a relatively small percentage of that funding is humanitarian-focused. Additionally, Devex’s analysis turned up $69.3 billion in loans and other repayable finance. This is likely to go on a mixture of maintaining the Ukrainian economy and fighting the war, with relatively little committed to humanitarian aid. Much of it may not yet have been drawn down. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are a lot of separatist in Ukraine that want to rejoin Russia. 2017 https://www-bbc-com.translate.goog/ukrainian/features-40483834?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp CIA involvement in Ukraine 2022https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-02-25/ukraine-cia-insurgents-russia-invasion A news story last month revealed that the agency has been training Ukrainian special forces and intelligence officers at a secret facility in the U.S. since 2015. Some U.S. officials have played down the report by claiming that the CIA is simply training the Ukrainians in intelligence collection. Others say the program has another secret purpose, which I believe: preparing Ukrainians for an insurgency in the event of a Russian occupation. https://news.yahoo.com/cia-trained-ukrainian-paramilitaries-may-take-central-role-if-russia-invades-185258008. html 2018 https://thegrayzone.com/2018/11/15/blowback-how-us-funded-fascists-in-ukraine-mentor-us-white-supremacists/ Last month, an unsealed FBI indictment of four American white supremacists from the Rise Above Movement (RAM) declared that the defendants had trained with Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi militia officially incorporated into the country’s national guard. The training took place after the white supremacist gang participated in violent riots in Huntington Beach and Berkeley, California and Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017.The indictment stated that the Azov Battalion “is believed to have participated in training and radicalizing United States-based white supremacy organizations.” Jimmy Dore has been all over this - https://www.youtube.com/watchv=LVzYMNf3Ic8 https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/washington-rushes-to-hide-its-octopus-ned-funding-in-ukraine Despite the attempt to hide this sponsorship, an 80-page document showing US government NED funding for hundreds of Ukraine groups has been leaked. Now posted on several sites this document allows us a window into some of the internal U.S. influence since the CIA orchestrated Kiev coup of 2014. Many of the allocations have to do with anti-Russian propaganda, usually in the name of ‘transparency’, human rights, ‘independent journalism’, monitoring and so on. For example, the list shows us that a Ukraine group ‘InformNapalm’, set up “to debunk myths and expose secrets of the Russian hybrid war” and which claims to be “a purely volunteer endeavor which does not have any financial support from any government or donor”, is actually US Government funded. The group publishes anti-Russian propaganda on its website in 31 languages. Other sources show us that the U.S. Government funds Ukraine's Neo-Nazi linked Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine (the KVPU), through its NED funded partner the AFL-CIO’s ‘Solidarity Center’. There are few sectors which the NED has not penetrated. In Ukraine, this has meant that, especially since 2014, the anti-Russian feeling already embedded in Ukraine nationalism and ultra-nationalism, has been inflamed, setting the country on a collision source with its Russian-speaking minority and with its big eastern neighbor. The NED has culturally reinforced NATO’s drive to war. https://web.archive.org/web/20161118042417/https:/www.nytimes.com/1997/03/31/us/political-meddling-by-outsiders-not-new-for-us.html As the New York Times pointed out in 1997, the NED was set up under the Reagan administration in the 1980s “to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades”. Since WW2 Washington, “usually acting covertly through the CIA, has installed or toppled leaders on every continent, secretly supported political parties of close allies like Japan, fomented coups, spread false rumors, bribed political figures and spent countless billions of dollars to sway public opinion.” While the CIA and the US military continue the covert subversion of ‘enemies’ and control of ‘allies’, the NED and USAID openly finance political and propaganda operations.   Washington deletes all details of US/NED funded bodies in Ukraine, but they are posted here - https://counter-hegemonic-studies.site/ned-ukraine-1/ 2014 Why CIA Director Brennan Visited Kiev: In Ukraine The Covert War Has Begunhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/ https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/readers-respond/bs-ed-ukraine-20140307-story.html Two months ago, U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland publicly bragged that between the U.S. government and private NGOs, a total of some $5 billion has been spent by the West to build up this Nazi-dominated revolt. Ms. Nuland was subsequently caught on tape planning the overthrow of the democratically-elected Yanukovych regime and naming several of her preferences for new cabinet posts — all of which have been implemented since, as if reading directly from her script. Even CIA Director John Brennan has admitted that the Russian troop deployment into Crimea is well below the 25,000 freely allowed under its 1997 treaty with Ukraine. In contrast, the U.S. invasions of Iraq and Libya were not only gross violations of sovereignty, but in the latter case lacked even the fig-leaf of congressional authorization for an operation that culminated in the assassination of a head of state. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ukraine-tape/leaked-audio-reveals-embarrassing-u-s-exchange-on-ukraine-eu-idUSBREA1601G20140207 https://www.businessinsider.com/cia-and-fbi-reportedly-advising-ukraine-2014-5 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/30/russia-ukraine-war-kiev-conflict https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-morrison/ukraine-willliam-hague_b_4933177.html https://www.archives.gov/files/iwg/reports/hitlers-shadow.pdf Breitman and Goda describe how the CIA’s Ukrainian operation, codenamed “Aerodynamic,” worked (this is taken from a National Archives government document and the extensive quote is not subject to copyright restrictions): AERODYNAMIC’s first phase involved infiltration into Ukraine and then ex-filtration of CIA-trained Ukrainian agents. By January 1950 the CIA’s arm for the collection of secret intelligence (Office of Special Operations, OSO) and its arm for covert operations (Office of Policy Coordination, OPC) participated. Operations in that year revealed “a well established and secure underground movement” in the Ukraine that was even “larger and more fully developed than previous reports had indicated.” Washington was especially pleased with the high level of UPA training in the Ukraine and its potential for further guerrilla actions, and with “the extraordinary news that… active resistance to the Soviet regime was spreading steadily eastward, out of the former Polish, Greek Catholic provinces.”97 2013 https://www.channel4.com/news/ukraine-mccain-far-right-svoboda-anti-semitic-protests 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpIoBUDuL3U The US embassy in Kyiv was running "tech camps" for activists in the years leading up to the coup. Edit: video from the official US embassy of Kyiv channel. One of the American organizers was Jamie Find later featured in the video. Prior to her becoming a Foreign Affairs Officer, she was a Senior Strategic Communications Consultant for Army Electronic Warfare. She specializes in asymmetric warfare. Not exactly civil society stuff. Another key organizer was Alec Ross who was Hillary Clinton's "tech" advisor. He was very active in Libya and in Syria, trying to see how tech could be used to usurp Governments. "When Jared [Cohen] and I went to Syria, it was because we knew that Syrian society was growing increasingly young (population will double in 17 years) and digital and that this was going to create disruptions in society that we could potential [sic] harness for our purposes.” You will notice he says "our purposes". It wasn't about helping civil society or the people. It was about US Govt objectives.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1997 https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/31/us/political-meddling-by-outsiders-not-new-for-us.html The National Endowment for Democracy, created 15 years ago to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades, spends $30 million a year to support things like political parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens of countries, including China.