The New York Times reported that an Anonymous U.S. Intelligence official leaked a report that a Russian Intelligence Unit offered bounties on the killing of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan and paid Taliban soldiers who succeeded in the task. They go on to say U.S. Intelligence concluded months ago that the Russian unit had secretly offered rewards for the murder of U.S. Troops and that they had briefed the Trump Administration, including Trump himself and the White House Security Council who discussed the problem in March.
However, the story then goes onto debunk itself. Dmitry Peskov from the