China News Network, April 4 According to NBC News (NBC News) local time on the 12th, recently, the leakage of classified Pentagon documents continued to ferment, a batch of leaked US confidential documents showed that Ukrainian agents against the will of the United States and Western countries carried out attacks in Belarus and Russia. In addition, the Ukrainian side discussed the issue of striking targets on the territory of Russia.
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NBC obtained more than 50 leaked documents showing Ukraine's military strength and weaknesses. A spokesman for the US Department of Defense said on the 10th that the documents published online appeared to "contain sensitive and highly classified material", although some of them may have been modified.
According to reports, a document labeled "top secret" said that the two attacks orchestrated by the Ukrainian side appeared to have caused damage to two targets outside Ukraine: a military airport outside Minsk, Belarus, and a natural gas compression station on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia.
According to the documents, officials of the Security Service of Ukraine assessed that its agents in Belarus ignored orders and attacked a Russian reconnaissance plane at a Belarusian airport on February 2. Agents allegedly used drones to cause "minor damage" to the reconnaissance aircraft.
The same document shows that a similar incident took place in Russia two days later. Russian officials reported that "Ukrainian forces" used drones on February 2 to try to "attack a gas compression station on the outskirts of Moscow."
Infographic: Zelensky.
Another document also shows that on February 2, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "proposed" to use some kind of drone "to strike at the sites of Russian deployment in the Rostov region."
Speaking with the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Zaluzhne, and another unidentified Ukrainian official, Zelensky "expressed concern" that Ukraine does not have the ability to strike Russia with long-range missiles, the document said. He suggested that Ukraine use drones to attack Russian troop sites on the border.
NBC said the two documents appeared to show that Ukraine had launched military operations in other countries. Although some countries that support Ukraine say any such action could lead them to reconsider their continued support for Kiev.
Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said the content showed the destructive nature of the leaked documents, saying "the release of these documents may be to weaken Western support for Ukraine."
Ukraine's president's office has not responded to NBC's request for comment.
Infographic: Pentagon.
Recently, a batch of suspected US military secret documents appeared on Twitter and many other social media, involving intelligence on the Ukraine crisis and other aspects, and containing content suspected of being monitored by US intelligence agencies at a high level of the South Korean government. Currently, the US Department of Defense and the Department of Justice are investigating the leak.
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said a few days ago that the leakage of classified Pentagon documents is "very interesting" and everyone is studying, analyzing and discussing them. But Peskov declined to comment on U.S. insistence that Russia was involved in the Pentagon leak, saying that "blaming Russia for everything has become a common disease."
On April 4, Zelensky's office reported that Zelensky himself discussed the issue of preventing leaks of the plans of the Ukrainian army at a meeting of the Supreme Command. "Ukraine has changed some of its military plans due to information leaks."