According to leaked secret Pentagon documents, US intelligence agencies knew about the Wagner PMC’s attempt to buy weapons from the NATO country Turkey, and are also well informed about Russian plans for a war in Ukraine.
Source: Washington Post
Details: According to “leaks” of documents, in early February, Wagner employees “met with Turkish representatives to purchase weapons and equipment in Turkey” in order to strengthen the position of PMCs in the war in Ukraine and Mali.
It is not clear from the report whether the Turkish government was aware of this or whether the negotiations were successful. But “the discovery that a NATO ally may have helped Russia in the war against Ukraine could be explosive,” the newspaper writes.
Two other pages from the leaked intelligence dossier reveal Wagner’s plans to hire Russian prisoners to fight in Ukraine and note that the Russian military has become dependent on private soldiers.
Literally: “The documents also demonstrate what has long been understood, but never publicly said out loud: the US intelligence community has penetrated the Russian army and its command so deeply that it can warn Ukraine in advance of attacks and reliably assess the strengths and weaknesses of Russian troops “.
More details: U.S. intelligence was aware of the transmission by the Russian Defense Ministry of a plan to strike Ukrainian positions in two locations on a specific day in February.
She also knew in advance that the military was preparing strikes on a dozen energy facilities and the same number of bridges in Ukraine.
The documents also included a possible alliance between China and Russia.
We will remind: The NYT published a material citing sources that the United States is allegedly investigating how the leak of classified documents allies concerning the preparation of the Ukrainian Defense Forces for a future counter-offensive – the training of new brigades and the supply of weapons.
The next day, a new publication on this topic appeared – that fragments began to be published on Twitter and other social networks a new batch of documents purporting to contain US intelligence and close US allies.
