The State of the Ukraine’s Conflict as of 1 March: What Do They Tell Us About the U.S. and What Have They Done About It?
However, the online documents do mention combat brigades that Ukraine is assembling and when they should be ready to fight. There is information on how much Ukraine is burning through bullets. While this issue has been discussed publicly by the U.S. and Ukraine, the documents provide details that have not been disclosed.
“Status of the Conflict as of 1 March” is the one labeled “Top Secret.” It gives a detailed battlefield summary, though it’s not certain why the documents are emerging now more than a month after they were prepared.
For example, one chart puts the Ukrainian death toll at around 71,000, a figure that is considered plausible. Russian deaths were also included in the chart at 16,000 to 17,500. The Russian count is believed to be much larger, though neither side releases overall casualty figures.
The Ukrainians are widely expected to launch their own offensive soon, and most analysts expect it to focus on areas controlled by Russian troops in southeastern Ukraine.
Military Intelligence Sharing and the Leap: A U.S. Military Warfare Probe Against the Russia of the Crimes of Ukraine
The identity of those who published the documents, and their motives, are not known. Putting the documents online alerted the Pentagon that they had been leaked or stolen, which might not have been otherwise known.
Some US officials were concerned that Russian intel could gain access to the information they were giving to Ukraine. Intelligence sharing between the US, NATO and Ukraine is seen as very important in helping the Ukrainian military fight off the Russians.
American officials said while the documents offer hints about U.S. methods to collect information on Russian plans, U.S. intelligence agencies do not yet know if any of their sources of information will be cut off as a result of the leak. New documents show that America has an extensive understanding of Russian planning despite the fact that they lost some sources since the war began.
The goal was to persuade the international community that the threat of a Russian attack was real. The director of the CIA has visited multiple times to discuss the intelligence sharing between the two countries.
The Russian military has made progress in heavy fighting that has killed thousands of people on both sides, even though the Russians continue to press a months long offensive in eastern Ukraine.
No one in the world knows when the counteroffensive will begin, according to a senior Ukrainian security official.
But the leak has the potential to do real damage to Ukraine’s war effort by exposing which Russian agencies the United States knows the most about, giving Moscow a potential opportunity to cut off the sources of information.
Senior U.S. officials said an inquiry, launched Friday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, would try to move swiftly to determine the source of the leak. The officials acknowledged that the documents appear to be legitimate intelligence and operational briefs compiled by the Pentagon’s Joint Staff, using reports from the government’s intelligence community, but that at least one had been modified from the original at some later point.
The DOJ and Pentagon joined forces to find out how secret military documents were found on multiple social media sites.
Some marked “top secret” documents were found on social networking sites on Wednesday. Since then, journalists, researchers, and social media sleuths have uncovered additional classified documents posted as early as March 1 on additional sites. This raises a host of questions about how widespread the breach may be and how much damage it could cause.
The motive for posting the material online is not known, as government intelligence agencies around the world seek to hide, rather than reveal, their secrets.
Some are dated to late February or early March and appear to be part of a slide deck produced daily for top U.S. military and other national security officials.