A senior Ukrainian official said on Friday that a leak of classified documents detailing secret US and NATO plans to help Kiev appeared to be a Russian disinformation operation to sow doubts about a planned Ukrainian counterattack.
Ukraine’s presidential advisor, Mykhailo Podolak, told Reuters that the leaked data, reported by the New York Times on Thursday, contained “a very large amount of fake information” and that Russia was trying to regain the initiative in its invasion.
And Friday, officials in the administration of US President Joe Biden said that secret war documents showing plans by Washington and NATO to build up the Ukrainian army before a planned attack against Russia were published this week on Twitter and Telegram, according to a report by the newspaper.The New York Times“.
It is noteworthy that the US Department of Defense is in the process of investigating these documents and who is behind their leakage, after they appeared on social media platforms.
and Telegram, a platform with more than half a billion users that is widely available in Russia.
The original documents show as pictures of plans for expected weapons deliveries, troop and battalion strength, and other plans, and Biden officials were working to delete them, but they did not succeed until Thursday evening.
“We are aware of reports of social media posts and the department is reviewing,” said Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh.
