The European Union did not believe in the US statement about Russia's “invasion” of Ukraine
FT: At first, the European Union did not believe in the US intelligence information about Russia's “invasion” of Ukraine Some countries of the European Union (EU) at first did not believe in the US statement about the allegedly possible “invasion” of Russia in Ukraine. The Financial Times writes about this with reference to sources. As one of the interlocutors of the publication said, “many allies were not convinced that serious things were happening” and reacted with distrust to the data of American intelligence. “We were surprised by this intelligence difference – how and why the US saw what we don’t see.” According to the FT, Washington had to go for unusually wide intelligence disclosures in early November in order to convince its allies of Europe, which allowed “to switch the conversation from whether the warning was correct to how best to contain” the possible “aggression” of Russia. In November, The