The leak could be a similar plot to that devised by British forces in the Second World War, where Operation Mincemeat aimed to get fake battle plans to the desk of Adolf Hitler to throw him off the scent.
Top Secret documents detailing the state of readiness of Ukraine’s forces as well as detailed planning information around equipment inflow, weather, ammunition expenditure, training and much more have been circulating on Telegram and Twitter.with a classification higher than top secret, giving clues to the sources of the information within it, and a caveat of"NOFORN," which means No Foreign Dissemination, so for US eyes only.
However, there is more than one version of the document circulating, and this gives the suspicion that one version at least could be disinformation. The information seems to be focused on assessed Russian casualty statistics, with the doctored document suggesting the Russians have only lost 17,500 personnel, when British Military Intelligence assess between 40-60,000 Russians have been killed, and the Ukrainians claim they have killed over 170,000 Russian military personnel. The doctored version increases assessments of Ukrainian dead.
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