Leaked documents do not provide specific battle plans, but they offer a snapshot of what Ukrainian troops might need for the campaign.Daniel Berehulak/The New York Times
Διαβαθμισμένα πολεμικά έγγραφα που περιγράφουν λεπτομερώς τα σχέδια των ΗΠΑ και του ΝΑΤΟ για την ενίσχυση του ουκρανικού στρατού πριν από μια προγραμματισμένη επίθεση κατά της Ρωσίας δημοσιεύτηκαν αυτή την εβδομάδα στο Twitter και στο Telegram, μια πλατφόρμα με περισσότερους από μισό δισεκατομμύριο χρήστες που είναι ευρέως διαθέσιμη στη Ρωσία, ανέφεραν ανώτεροι αξιωματούχοι της κυβέρνησης Μπάιντεν. . Το Πεντάγωνο ερευνά τη διαρροή.
A classified Ukraine war document leak
Classified war documents detailing U.S. and NATO plans for strengthening the Ukrainian military before a planned offensive against Russia were posted this week on Twitter and on Telegram, a platform with more than half a billion users that is widely available in Russia, senior Biden administration officials said. The Pentagon is investigating the leak.
Military analysts said the documents appear to have been modified in certain parts from their original format, overstating U.S. estimates of Ukrainian war dead and understating estimates of Russian troops killed. Biden officials were working to get the figures deleted but had not, as of last night, succeeded. It was unclear how the documents ended up on social media.
The modifications could point to an effort at disinformation by Moscow, the analysts said. But the disclosures in the original documents — which appear as photographs of charts of anticipated weapons deliveries, troop and battalion strengths, and other plans — represent a significant breach of U.S. intelligence in the effort to aid Ukraine.
Details: The documents, which are five weeks old, do not provide specific battle plans about Ukraine’s offensive, which U.S. officials say is probably coming in the next month or so. But they mention, for instance, how fast Ukrainian troops are using the HIMARS munitions supplied by the U.S., information that the Pentagon has not disclosed publicly.
In other news from the war:
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine won strong backing from Polish leaders for his country’s rapid entry into NATO, and he signed a deal paving the way for the joint production of arms and ammunition.Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, and Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, appealed for a return to peace talks to end the war in Ukraine. But Xi has not publicly agreed to pressure Moscow to negotiate.
