MOSCOW, Apr 10 that the secret materials that got into the social networks, which describe the state of the Ukrainian troops and the plans of Washington and NATO to strengthen them, could be forged, Reuters reports, citing two unnamed US officials.
According to the agency, US authorities are investigating the source of the leak secret documents containing information about the state of Ukrainian air defense, and about the Israeli foreign intelligence service Mossad. No independent verification of the authenticity of the documents has yet been carried out.
“They (US officials — ed.) do not rule out that the documents could be forged to mislead investigators about their origin or to spread false information that could harm US security interests,” the agency writes, citing sources.< br>The investigation, according to him, is at an early stage. The Pentagon suspects that the documents could have been posted by an American. «The depth of the topics covered in the documents, which relate to the war in Ukraine, China, the Middle East and Africa, suggests that the leak came from an American, and not from an ally,» the agency said, based on data obtained from an unnamed official.
According to one of the sources, investigators are considering four or five motives for leaking such classified information.
On Thursday, the media wrote that the Pentagon was investigating a leak on the social network of materials describing the state of Ukrainian troops and the plans of the United States and NATO to strengthen them. The New York Times noted that the documents, dated early March, are allegedly distributed in «Russian pro-government telegram channels.»
On Friday, it became known that a new batch of documents had been published. According to the publication, more than 100 documents could have got into the Internet, the damage from the incident is estimated as significant.
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, answering a question about the leak, said that Moscow had no doubts about the direct or indirect involvement of the United States and NATO in the conflict.