The Intercept website quoted current and former US officials as saying that secret US operations are being carried out inside Ukraine, according to an undeclared decision by US President Joe Biden.
And the site revealed - in a report on this subject - that Biden informed certain leaders in Congress of the US administration's decision to conduct a wide program of covert operations inside Ukraine.
A former US Special Forces officer said Biden had modified an existing presidential order - issued during the administration of President Barack Obama - designed to counter malicious foreign influence activities.
The Intercept quoted a former CIA officer as saying that Biden's use of the originally prepared resolution frustrated some intelligence officials, as they see that the United States' involvement in the Ukraine conflict is very different from the spirit of that resolution, and that This crisis deserves new arrangements.
The site said that a CIA spokesman declined to comment on whether there was a secret presidential operation in Ukraine.
What is now certain, according to the site, is that since Ukraine launched a successful counterattack on Russian forces in late August, American officials have been claiming credit for it, and insisting that US intelligence has been the key to Ukraine's battlefield victories.
However, the site says, these officials at the same time downplay the importance of their intelligence failures in Ukraine, especially their blatant mistakes at the beginning of the war.
The site mentioned here that US intelligence confirmed - shortly after Russia's war on Ukraine last February - that Moscow would win within days and quickly defeat the Ukrainian army.
The Intercept attributed to US military and intelligence officials that the Biden administration did not order the return of secret US assets to Ukraine, which it withdrew before the war, only when it became clear that the agency's expectations of Moscow's quick victory were wrong.
However, the site says that covert US operations inside Ukraine are now more extensive than they were early in the war, when US intelligence officials feared that Russia would defeat the Ukrainian military.
The Intercept reported that many current and former US intelligence officials say there is a much greater presence of both CIA agents and resources and special operations elements in Ukraine than there was at the time of the Russian attack in late February.