The publication of explosive information about the Ukraine war causes a stir.
Now more details have been revealed.
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Ukraine leaks
on the Internet: Great Britain speaks of "inaccuracy"
Leaked
US
secret documents
: adviser to Volodymyr Zelenskyj does not believe in wiretapping
“Very high” security risk
: USA reacts to publication of “Ukraine leaks”
Ridicule
from
Kiev
follows: Alexander Lukashenko asks Vladimir Putin for security guarantees
Soldiers
wanted for
Russia
: Wagner Group wants to recruit with an open letter
Here you can read current developments from the Ukraine conflict.
The processed information on the losses of the armies involved in the Ukraine war comes partly from the warring parties from Russia or Ukraine.
They can therefore not be independently checked in part.
Update from April 12, 12:55 p.m .:
Apparently, the leaked US secret documents should also contain explosive information about NATO special forces in Ukraine, as several British media have now said unanimously.
As a result, up to 97 NATO special forces are said to have been active in the Ukraine war.
The British Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on the revelations.
On Twitter, however, it urged caution.
US leaks in the Ukraine war: New details on possible arms deliveries published
Update from April 12, 9:39 a.m
.: New details on the “Ukraine leaks”: According to information from the Reuters news agency, one of the alleged US secret documents shows that Serbia wanted to supply Ukraine with weapons – or has already done so.
The paper in question is entitled "Europe - Responses to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict" and lists in chart form the "evaluated positions" of 38 European governments on Kyiv's requests for military assistance.
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Has Serbia planned to supply arms to Ukraine?
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Ukraine leaks: US initiates criminal investigations
Update from April 12, 5 a.m.:
After the release of explosive US information about the war in Ukraine, the US government is trying to clarify and try to calm its allies.
"We will turn every stone until we determine the origin and extent of the incident," said US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
“I was first briefed on the reports of the unauthorized release of sensitive and classified material on the morning of April 6,” Austin said.
Since then, he has consulted with senior staff at his ministry on a daily basis and taken immediate action.
"We have referred the matter to the Justice Department, which has launched a criminal investigation." As long as the investigations were ongoing, he could not comment further.
But he emphasized: "We take the matter very, very seriously."
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Blinken said he spoke to his Ukrainian colleague Dmytro Kuleba on Tuesday.
"In our conversation, among other things, I reiterated our continued support for Ukraine and its efforts to defend its territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence."
Pictures of the Ukraine war: great horror and small moments of happiness
Pictures of the Ukraine war: great horror and small moments of happiness
US leaks in the Ukraine war: Great Britain speaks of "inaccuracy"
Update from April 11, 10:20 p.m .:
The British Ministry of Defense explains that there is a “high degree of inaccuracy” in the alleged leaked US secret documents that have appeared on the Internet as so-called Ukraine leaks.
This comes from a statement by the UK Ministry of Defense published on Twitter.
"Readers should be careful not to take the claims at face value," the UK MoD said.
Journalists from the Associated Press (AP)
agency
have now been able to speak to alleged witnesses to the publication of the Ukraine leaks.
These are users of the Discord communication platform, including a teenager and a child.
The reporters learned from an 18-year-old that one of the chat users had suddenly started sharing allegedly secret documents during a conversation about the Ukraine war.
"We were all just confused.
We couldn't believe what had happened," he says of the events.
However, the
AP
could not confirm many of the details mentioned.
The chat in which the documents were published has since been deleted.
The alleged witness refused to give his name for security reasons.
US leaks in the Ukraine war: was Zelenskyj bugged?
Consultant clearly disagrees
Update April 11, 3:35 p.m.:
The Pentagon has set up an "inter-agency working group" to study the impact of the data leak on national security.
The US Department of Justice also launched a criminal investigation.
The government is concerned that more documents could surface, said White House spokesman for the National Security Council John Kirby.
"We don't know who is responsible for this.
And we don't know if they have anything else they want to release," Kirby said Monday (April 10).
According to Kirby, US President Joe Biden was informed about the leak at the end of last week.
Ukraine leaks: Selenskyj adviser does not believe in wiretapping
Update from April 11, 1:40 p.m .:
In the course of the “Ukraine Leaks” there are also reports that the USA is said to have wiretapped Volodymyr Zelenskyj.
His advisor Mychajlo Podoljak expressly doubts these reports.
Consultations between the Ukrainian head of state and the military did not proceed as described in the documents, Podoliak said on Ukrainian television on Monday (April 10).
Earlier, reports indicated that Zelenskyy, in a consultation with the army leadership in late February, proposed drone strikes on Russian army bases in the Rostov region.
This may have encouraged Washington not to supply Kiev with long-range weapons, it said.
Podoljak now contradicted this description: It made little sense "to simply say in abstract terms: 'Let us bomb the Rostov region'." Rather, priorities are set and strategies are defined in such consultations.
Ukraine leaks: US documents probably first appeared on video game platform Discord
Update from April 11, 1:06 p.m .:
The independent investigative platform
Bellingcat
checked where the leaked documents first appeared.
According to this, some of them could have been online as early as January.
According to Bellingcat
, some were
published on Discord, a popular platform for video gamers.
There, accordingly, they appeared in channels for fans of a YouTube celebrity, as well as for players of the computer game "Minecraft".
Leaks in the Ukraine war: initially largely unnoticed on the video game platform
Update from April 11, 12:30 p.m .:
According to the US broadcaster
CNN
, the leaked US documents on the Ukraine war and other regions of the world appeared weeks earlier on the Discord platform.
There they initially went largely unnoticed.
Only after the documents had spread on Twitter and Telegram was the alarm raised.
A former employee justified the fact that the documents could be published on Twitter with a gap in the user guidelines of the platform.
The distribution of material obtained through hacks is not permitted.
However, in this case there is "no credible evidence" that it is a technical hack or smuggling, according to the employee.
Leaks secret US documents in the Ukraine war: Egypt wanted to deliver thousands of missiles to Russia
Update from April 11, 12:15 p.m .:
The leaked US documents reveal some interesting developments in the background of the Ukraine war.
Accordingly, Egypt wanted to deliver thousands of missiles to Russia in a secret project.
Ukraine war: South Korea calls US leaks "senseless lies"
Update from April 11, 9:55 a.m .:
The South Korean government has declared large parts of the leaked US secret documents on the Internet to be fake.
After a phone conversation between the US and South Korean defense ministers, they both concluded "that a significant number of the documents in question are fabricated," South Korea's presidential office said.
Some of the documents are said to show South Korea's concerns that the US could supply South Korean-made weapons to Ukraine.
This would be a violation of South Korea's arms export policy, according to which Seoul does not deliver armaments to war zones.
Some of the documents are also said to suggest that the US spied on its close allies like South Korea and Israel.
However, the South Korean President's office on Tuesday dismissed rumors of security flaws that could make eavesdropping possible as "senseless lies".
Ukraine war: Kiev's defense minister speaks of "new surprise"
Update from April 11, 8:50 a.m.:
According to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, Ukraine is preparing for a new attack on the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
"We can offer the Russians a new surprise," he said, according to the Unian news agency.
One just waits for the "right moment" to repeat the sinking of the "Moskva".
The flagship of the Russian fleet was hit by two missiles in April last year and finally sank.
Update from April 11, 7:24 a.m .:
In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian fighter jets have carried out a total of eight airstrikes against Russian troops and equipment in Ukraine, the Ukrainian General Staff reported.
The Ukrainian army also shot down a Mi-24 helicopter and nine different types of drones, it said.
"Despite high losses in personnel and equipment, the enemy is not giving up the war of aggression," said the General Staff.
There was heavy fighting in the direction of the settlements of Bakhmut, Lyman and Marin, with the Ukrainian army repelling 52 attacks.
Ukraine war: is Kiev working on a new strategy because of leaked US documents?
Update from April 10, 8:24 p.m .:
As a result of the publication of alleged secret US documents, which are currently circulating on social media, the US broadcaster
CNN
reported that Ukraine would now change its war strategy.
This information should come from circles of the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj.
However, one of Zelenskyy's most important security advisors, Oleksiy Danilov, contradicts the reports in the Ukraine war: "I don't know who
CNN
spoke to.
In any case, I can say that the number of people who know about our plans on our territory is extremely limited.
And I don't think the informant who was in contact with
CNN
had anything to do with it," Danilov said, according to
tagesschau.de
.
Leaks in the Ukraine war: Pentagon considers publication of US documents to be "very high" security risk
Update from April 10, 7:37 p.m.:
According to the Pentagon, the publication of secret US documents represents a “very high” security risk in connection with the Ukraine war. The Kremlin reacted positively to the publications, which also contain information on Ukrainian warfare should.
The Pentagon did not provide any further information.
The secret US government documents had appeared on online platforms such as Twitter, Telegram, Discord and other platforms.
According to the
New York Times,
they contain, among other things, information on US and NATO plans to support a Ukrainian military offensive against Russia in the Ukraine war in the spring.
According to the newspaper, the documents were distributed through pro-Russian channels.
Lukashenko demands security guarantees from Russia in view of the Ukraine war
Update from April 10, 6:58 p.m .:
The Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko has asked the big neighbor Russia to protect Belarus like “Russian territory”.
At a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu in Minsk on Monday (April 10), Lukashenko asked for appropriate security guarantees, the state news agency Belta reported.
He also thanked for the stationing of thousands of soldiers on Belarusian territory.
Russia recently announced that it would station nuclear weapons in Belarus because of the war in Ukraine.
Lukashenko's request is comparable to the request of an antelope in a crocodile's mouth for security guarantees, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak tweeted.
Lukashenko is considered to be heavily dependent on Moscow economically, militarily and politically.
Kiev blames Minsk for supporting the Ukraine war as Russia also launched the invasion from Belarusian territory.
Lukashenko has been in power in Minsk for more than a quarter of a century.
Ukraine war: Peskow calls US document leak "interesting"
Update from April 10, 1:46 p.m .
: The publication of the secret US documents on the war in Ukraine met with great interest in the Kremlin.
"The leaks are reasonably interesting, everyone is studying, analyzing and discussing them broadly," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.
US media had previously reported on the content of the documents published on social networks.
There is also information from US intelligence services on the Ukrainian warfare.
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj was also spied on in connection with the Ukraine war.
The Kremlin spokesman declined to comment on whether Russia had anything to do with the publication.
Ukraine Leaks Revealed: Did the US Also Spy on Zelenskyy?
Update from April 10, 12:28 p.m .:
According to a report by the US television channel
CNN
, the Ukrainian leadership is angry about the published secret documents on the Russian war of aggression.
The country has therefore already changed some of its military plans,
CNN
reported , citing those close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
A document also shows that the United States even spied on Zelenskyy.
The fact in itself is not a surprise, but Ukrainian officials are deeply frustrated by the data leak,
CNN
wrote , citing a person close to Zelenskyy.
According to reports in numerous US media, the documents show how deeply Washington's secret services also scrutinize their allies.
Battle for Bachmut: Russia moves troops to the front in the Ukraine war
Update from April 10, 10:16 a.m .:
The Ukrainian armed forces are observing Russian troop movements near the heavily contested city of Bakhmut.
According to the opposition news agency Nexta
, more regular Russian units are said to have been relocated near Bakhmut in order to possibly replace or reinforce the mercenaries of the Wagner group
.
Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrskyi of the
Kyiv Independent
also confirmed that there are signs that the private army is "exhausted" .
“The enemy has switched to so-called scorched earth tactics.
They destroy buildings and (military) positions with airstrikes and artillery fire,” he was quoted as saying in the report.
This tactic is already known from Russia from the Syrian war.
Ukraine war: According to leaked US documents, air defense is running out of ammunition
Update from April 10, 08:03:
Ukraine urgently needs new ammunition for the air defense system.
The stocks of S-300 and Buk missiles from the Soviet era should be completely exhausted by mid-April or early May at the latest, according to the leaked US documents.
The
New York Times
reported on Monday morning.
The document in question was issued on February 28 and it is unclear if the assessment has changed.
So far, Ukrainian air defenses have been considered extremely effective against constant Russian attacks.
Ukraine War: Leaked secret documents prompt investigation by US Department of Justice
Update from April 9 at 9:07 p.m.:
The US Department of Justice has launched an investigation into secret documents distributed on the Internet.
"We have been in contact with the Department of Defense on this matter and have started an investigation," a spokesman for the Justice Department in Washington told the
AFP
news agency .
The Pentagon said on Friday that it was investigating the leak and had officially notified the Justice Department of the matter.
A number of secret government documents have recently appeared on online platforms such as Twitter, Telegram and Discord.
Among them were secret documents on US and NATO plans to help Ukraine prepare for a spring offensive against Russia, according to a
New York Times
report on Thursday.
Ukraine war: Bakhmut conquered soon?
Wagner makes progress - Russia sends elite units
April 9 update at 6:15 p.m.:
Russia continues to try to capture Bakhmut completely.
Ukrainian Military Command East spokesman Serhiy Cherevatyi says Russia has begun sending elite units to the embattled city.
Among them are paratroopers.
The reason for this is the large losses among the fighters of the private mercenary group Wagner.
Cherevatji recently declared that the situation in Bakhmut was difficult.
Despite the numerical superiority of the Russian units, the Ukrainian troops held out.
Russia has made tactical successes in some areas, but is paying a heavy price for it.
According to estimates by British secret services, the Wagner troops are making progress in Bachmut.
First report from April 09, 2023 at 6:29 p.m.:
Kiev/Moscow – 178,000 soldiers from Russia have now fallen in the Ukraine war.
This was announced by the General Staff of Ukraine on Easter Sunday (April 9).
The intensity of the war remains high.
Most recently, Ukraine had hinted for the first time that it might enter into negotiations with regard to the annexed peninsula of Crimea.
The view of a possible military recapture of the strategically important point has recently diverged widely.
Despite the continuing difficult situation in his home country, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyj, could come to Germany soon.
From Kiev to Aachen: Selenskyj could soon come to Germany
The 45-year-old head of state Selenskyj could personally receive the Charlemagne Prize in the Coronation Hall of Aachen City Hall on May 14, as the
German Press Agency
writes.
The prize has been awarded since 1950 to people who have rendered outstanding service to European unity, this year it will go to Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian population, who have been defending themselves against the Russian invasion since February 24.
In the previous year (2022), the prize went to the Belarusian civil rights activists Svetlana Tichanovskaya, Veronika Zepkalo and Maria Kolesnikova.
Other top-class politicians are also expected to attend the ceremony.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen have already been officially confirmed.
According to speculation, French President Emmanuel Macron and a representative of the Polish government could also be there in Aachen.
Easter at war: Pope includes Ukraine in Easter prayers
In his traditional Easter message on Sunday (April 9), Pope Francis called on Russians to investigate the truth about the invasion of Ukraine,
Reuters
reports.
"Help the beloved Ukrainian people on their way to peace and shine the Easter light on the Russian people," said the head of the Catholic Church in his Easter prayers.
Already on the Easter Vigil (the night before Easter Sunday) the Pope encouraged hope amidst the "icy winds of war".
Francis has repeatedly referred to Ukraine and its people as “martyrs,” Reuters writes.
(editing with agencies)
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