US President Joe Biden instructed the head of US National Intelligence, Avril Haines, to assess the damage caused by the leak. The Russian Foreign Ministry also did not rule out that the leak of secret Pentagon documents could be a deliberate stuffing for disinformation.
According to Fox News, the leak could have occurred as a result of the actions of a person associated with the CIA or the National Security Agency (NSA) The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the leak Photoshop.