The U.S., however, will refrain from providing intelligence that would enable the Ukrainians to strike targets on Russian territory under the new policy, a constraint Washington has imposed to reduce the risk of broadening the conflict, U.S. officials added…

The previous U.S. intelligence arrangements were devised when American officials projected that the major Russian attack would be directed against Kyiv with the aim of toppling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and the administration was worried about the risk of an escalating conflict with Moscow.

Operating on those assumptions, the U.S. shared intelligence with Kyiv about Russian capabilities in Donbas and Crimea, but stopped short of providing targeting data that would enable the Ukrainians to take offensive action to recapture those territories, which Moscow’s forces occupied in 2014.

As Russia positioned its forces for a major offensive in eastern Ukraine, some U.S. officials were starting to reconsider the intelligence-sharing arrangements, according to officials. Republican lawmakers also urged that more intelligence be shared with Kyiv.