Ukraine’s defence minister, Oleksii Reznikov said on Wednesday that the alleged Pentagon document leaks contain a mixture of true and false information about his country’s military.
Reznikov also said he believed the leaks were a deliberate attempt to sow discord among Kyiv’s allies, dismissing as “not true” suggestions in the Pentagon leaks that NATO special forces were operating inside Ukraine.
United States officials are investigating who leaked the classified data as Ukrainian forces prepare for an expected counteroffensive to retake Russian-occupied territory. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Wednesday the trove of documents might be fake and a deliberate attempt to mislead Moscow.