Russia and Ukraine: How did secret US documents about Ukraine spread and where did they disappear?



              RUSSIAN AND UKRAINE WARS 

ozens of classified US documents that were leaked and circulated online are disappearing, or at least becoming harder to find. But where did those documents come from in the first place? We've pieced together what we know about how these documents first appeared, where they spread, and who was discussing them. Post documents The first screenshots of these documents were verified to have been published on March 1. Then more of them appeared a few days later. It has been featured on Discord, a social media platform popular with computer gamers, and has been shared on many discussion channels.


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The first screenshots of these documents were verified to have been published on March 1. Then more of them appeared a few days later. It has been featured on Discord, a social media platform popular with computer gamers, and has been shared on many discussion channels.


Someone in the chat group claims to have taken the photos from another Discord channel, which has since been deleted, making it impossible to verify. Investigative website Bellingcat spotted evidence that some of the documents may have been released in January or even earlier. The Pentagon: The leaked documents on Ukraine pose a threat to national security Egyptian and Russian denials of the Washington Post leaks exacerbate the controversy over them on social media Who leaked top secret US documents on the war in Ukraine, and why? The documents remained largely undetected on Discord, before spreading to other platforms in early April, eventually being picked up by US officials and the mainstream press. Spread through social media

The leaked documents were discussed on Russia 1 TV's 60 Minutes program Initially, the pro-Kremlin Telegram channels that shared screenshots of the documents did not focus on the authenticity of the documents, but rather on their content. However, many prominent channels and media soon began to tend to portray the documents as fake, even at least partially. The Regnum news website quoted an expert as saying that the documents may be a deliberate leak intended to provide a camouflage cover for the expected Ukrainian counterattack in the near future. As Yuriy Podolyaka, a prominent war commentator on Russian state television, said, this is "planted information" intended to mislead Russia about the counterattack.