• US Secrets about the war in Ukraine spread in an online game: the leak that has the US on tenterhooks

After the alleged leak of confidential documents, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, through a source close to President Volodimir Zelenski, said it will be forced to change its counteroffensive plans, but did not explain exactly what sensitive information of the published revealed its intentions.

Another of those who has spoken is Mikhailo Podolyak, adviser to the president: "Russia is trying to influence Ukrainian society, sow fear, mistrust and doubt. There is no doubt that this is another element of their hybrid warfare." By his words, it gives credibility to data leakage.

They are the only tangible reactions to this news, which has gone largely unnoticed in the country, where all the efforts of the Ukrainian army are focused on fine-tuning the newly arrived Western weaponry, stockpiling ammunition and rotating units so that they continue to train in these new weapons and rest in the face of those advance plans that, For a couple of months, they seem telegraphed to the Russian invader without the need for any forero to hack the Pentagon, or as other specialists point out, the Pentagon itself elaborates a disappointment or deception.

These types of missions are older than fire. The best example is the spectacular Operation Minced Meat, in the middle of World War II, when the United Kingdom dressed the corpse of a dead thief in London as a British officer, threw it on the coast of Huelva with a briefcase loaded with authentic information mixed with another false, among which were the plans of a supposed allied landing in Greece. A Spanish fisherman showed the body to Francoist police who, unsurprisingly, handed over the documents to Nazi Germany. After several analyses, Adolf Hitler himself ended up giving them for good. But the final landing was not in Greece, but in Sicily.

In Russia, everything published so far is analyzed with some skepticism. "We must not exclude the possibility that such a leak of classified information is disinformation from US intelligence," explicitly says the channel that the Wagner mercenary group feeds on Telegram.

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