Several classified documents containing “secret details” of US and NATO plans to bolster Ukrainian Defense Forces for an invasion of Russia have been leaked online. According to a report in The New York Times, the documents currently circulating on Twitter and Telegram have raised serious concerns about the security breach and forced the Biden administration to launch an investigation into the matter. Is.
Significantly, Twitter and Telegram are two major social media platforms which are widely used in Ukraine and Russia. “We are aware of the reports of social media posts and the department is reviewing the matter,” Sabrina Singh, deputy press secretary at the Pentagon, told the newspaper. However, experts said that the leaked document, which appeared to be authentic, could be a hoax by the Russian military.
According to the NYT report, the leaked documents contain no information on war plans and do not say when or how Ukraine intends to launch its invasion. However, they point to another attack by Russian forces in the next month, as the documents are five weeks old. Other information in the documents included training schedules for Ukraine’s 12 combat brigades, and stated that nine of them were being trained by US and NATO forces. The newspaper reported that it has also been said that 250 tanks and more than 350 mechanized vehicles are needed to drive out the Russian army.
