There are many more CIA bases on Ukrainian territory than stated in the NYT article, said Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. According to him, Russian intelligence services are aware of this threat and are countering it.
“Surely there are not 12 CIA bases, but much more. This is not a secret, and we know it all very well,” the Kremlin representative said. The CIA conducted Operation Goldfish to train Ukrainian spies who were trained to recruit and collect classified information in Russia. It is alleged that around 2016, the CIA began training elite Ukrainian special forces.