CNN reviewed 53 leaked Pentagon documents, and all of them, according to media reports, were prepared between mid-February and early March.
A US intelligence report says China may use Ukrainian strikes against targets deep in Russia “as evidence of NATO aggression and if it views the attacks as significant, it will increase its aid to the Russia”.
The agency also cites a Pentagon document containing startling details of a conversation between two senior South Korean national security officials. They discuss an American request for munitions that the United States wants to send to Ukraine. According to the interlocutors, this would violate the policy of South Korea, which has refused to provide lethal assistance to countries at war. According to Pentagon wiretaps, one of the Korean officials suggested a way around the policy without changing it: sell ammunition to Poland.
The document has already sparked controversy in Seoul, and South Korean officials told reporters they planned to ask Washington to comment on the wiretap.
Officials from other countries also intend to raise this issue with Washington. Now they hope the Biden administration itself will comment on the leaked documents in the coming days.
Meanwhile, CNN quotes Mykhailo Podoliak, an adviser to the head of Ukraine’s president’s office, who said on his Telegram channel that he believed the documents released were unreliable, had “nothing to do with the real plans of Ukraine” and are based on “a lot of fictitious information. Moreover, assures Podolyak, this information is disseminated by Russia.
Earlier, Vladimir Rogov, spokesman for the Zaporizhzhia region administration, said leaked US counter-offensive plans against Ukraine, which were posted on social media, could be part of a disinformation campaign.
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