Trump was not informed of a recent Ukrainian attack on Russia, The Hill’s sister network NewsNation confirmed Sunday.

According to NewsNation’s Tanya Noury, an administration official said the president was not given a heads-up about the drone attack that a Ukrainian security official alleged destroyed more than 40 planes well within Russian territory, according to The Associated Press.

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    5 days ago

    This is a ridiculous headline.

    If this was “Heads of UK, Germany, and France were informed ahead of Ukraine attack; Trump left in the dark” it’d be a different story.

    As it stands, there’s no reason to think this is anything but clickbait. The real story is the military operation. Don’t mention him unless it’s actually relevant.

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      5 days ago

      Thanks for the sanity check. I wouldn’t think Ukraine’s top brass would notify any world leaders of an impending attack, especially one that took so long to plan and with such high stakes. Give me one reason they would?!

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        Up until now the Ukrainian military conferred with the USA as to what targets to strike. The us provided a great deal of intelligence.

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          But this isn’t the first time Ukraine kept a military operation in secret.

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          4 days ago

          This is an incredibly covert operation that has been in play since before 2025. If the headline was “Pentagon aware, President wasn’t” that would again be a different story. There are countless stories of the man being a walking national security risk - unless we have proof that they went around him, this is just diluting that conversation.

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      The story isn’t about the attack, it’s about how Trump thinks he’s entitled to all the information.