Wasn’t there a high level pentagon document leaked the other day that placed Russia dead at 17,000 and Ukraine dead at over 40,000? I’m pretty such there was so I think I’ll go with that.
No, the document ‘leak’ was provided courtesy of leaked Ukraine War plans spread through a Minecraft Discord server within gaming community: War Thunder. According to Bellingcat researcher Aric Toler, the early document leak was an unofficial Minecraft Discord server US and NATO plans to support Ukraine’s military effort against the Russian invasion.
Supposedly, there were also two different sets of estimate spread on Russian Telegram channels: one indicating that Ukrainian combat losses are much lower than those of Russia, and an edited image showing them as much higher! ing that Ukrainian combat losses are much lower than those of Russia, and then an edited image showing them as much higher.
Later, the actual leak point on another Discord server was the actual leak point by Discord user named Lucca.
Lucca claimed to have found an archive of more than 100 classified files on a now-deleted Discord server, and posted more than 30 of them to a YouTuber’s Discord server over March 1-2. On March 4,
Ten of these files were posted to a Minecraft Discord, and then three in early April ending up on 4chan and five were posted on Russian Telegram channels!