Secret documents explaining U.S. and NATO efforts to aid the Ukrainian military were posted on social media this week, according to media reports, representing a rare leak of sensitive internal war planning materials at a crucial moment in Ukraine's...
The leak, first reported by The New York Times late Thursday, comes as Ukrainian forces prepare for a high-stakes spring counteroffensive against the invading Russian army. The papers, which were posted to Twitter and Telegram and have since prompted a Pentagon investigation, do not offer specific battle plans forBut the documents do contain some information that would surely be valuable to Russian commanders. For example, the papers detail the “expenditure rate” of U.S.
There are also signs that the documents may have been altered, suggesting that perhaps pro-Russian actors may be behind the leak. For example, one of the papers states thathas suffered as few as 16,000 deaths in the war, while more than 71,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed, The Times said.
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