Secret documents about the war have surfaced on the Internet.
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Washington, Kyiv According to media reports, new documents containing US military secrets about Ukraine, China and the Middle East have surfaced online. According to a report by the New York Times, the more than one hundred classified documents published on Friday (local time) on Twitter, among other things, contained information about Ukraine’s air defense capabilities. The documents appeared to come from the US military and intelligence agencies, the Wall Street Journal wrote.
The Pentagon is investigating the matter, a spokeswoman for the US Department of Defense told the WSJ. The same applies to the CIA, the foreign intelligence service.
The Pentagon made the same statement on Thursday, when it became known about a similar release of secret documents on Ukraine’s preparations for a military offensive against Russia. According to The New York Times, a US intelligence official described the revelations as a “nightmare” for the “Five Eyes.” The term describes the intelligence cooperation of five countries: USA, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
The New York Times reported that national security circles are wondering how much classified information has leaked out after the revelations and are making every effort to find the leak. In addition to information on Ukraine, the recently released documents also contained classified data relating to China, the military situation in the Indo-Pacific, the Middle East and terrorism, it said.
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