Leak shows Ukraine has lost 7x what Russia has. Fake news has lied to us just as they did with Trump.
“Leak shows Ukraine has lost 7x what Russia has”
Fake news has lied to us just as they did with Trump.”
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“Leaked US documents have revealed that disagreements in Russia’s security apparatus led to the defence ministry being accused of undercounting casualties of the war in Ukraine.
Russia has said very little publicly about the scale of its war deaths.
But the files show the FSB security service claimed officials were not counting deaths of the Russian National Guard, Wagner mercenaries and others.
Russia has already warned the leaks may be fake, deliberately dumped by the US.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65260672
Also, Dozens of classified US documents which were leaked and circulated online have started to disappear, or at least become much more difficult to find. But where did they come from?
We’ve pieced together what we know about how they first appeared, where they spread, and who’s been discussing them.
Documents posted
The first screenshots of the documents we’ve been able to verify were posted on 1 March. More appeared a few days later.
They appeared on Discord - a social media platform popular with gamers - and were shared on several discussion channels.
These channels aren’t about politics or military intelligence, they’re for players of the computer game Minecraft and another for fans of a Filipino YouTube celebrity.
In one of the channels, after a brief argument about Minecraft and the war in Ukraine, a user says “here, have some leaked documents” and posts several screenshots.
Discord screengrab of a conversation between a user and another who shared the photos of the documents: “Nah, I’m not oversensitive lmao”. “Here, have some leaked documents”
One image - widely circulated by Russian channels - was edited to reduce the number of Russian troops killed and inflate the Ukrainian losses.
By 7 April, the documents were also circulating on some of the major social media platforms, such as Twitter and Reddit.
Russian response
Initially, pro-Kremlin Telegram channels who shared the screenshots did not dwell much on the authenticity of the documents, focusing largely on their content.
But soon several prominent channels and media outlets started to lean towards portraying the documents as at least partly fake.
An expert quoted by ultranationalist news website Regnum suggested the documents may be a deliberate leak aimed at providing a smokescreen for the coming Ukrainian counter-offensive.
On state TV, Yuri Podolyaka, a prominent war commentator, said this was “planted information” intended to mislead Russia about the counter-offensive.
Olga Skabeyeva, host of state Rossiya 1 TV’s 60 Minutes talk show said the West had been doing “all it can to create the image of a weak Ukraine whose shells are running out and which has nothing left at all”.
A frame from the 10 April broadcast of the Russian political talk-show, 60 minutes, showing the presenter Olga Skabeyeva talking about the leaked documents
https://www.bbc.com/news/65240603
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1. FBI arrests Jack Teixeira over classified document leaks
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The FBI arrested Jack Teixeira in connection with the leaking of classified documents that have been posted online.
Teixeira, 21, is a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard. His arrest comes following a fast-moving search by the US government for the identity of the leaker who posted classified documents to a social media platform popular with video gamers.
IMPORTANT ARTICLE
“Wagner” and intelligence of Russian Federation tried to penetrate communities of gamers - head of Microsoft Smith
13.04.23 18:24
https://censor.net/en/n3411971
The Wagner Group and Russian intelligence have attempted to infiltrate gaming platforms such as Discord to conduct an information campaign.
This is written by the website of the World Economic Summit Semaforwith reference to the statement of Microsoft President Brad Smith during his speech, Censor.NET reports with reference to Ukrainian Pravda.
Microsoft President Brad Smith said a digital threat analysis team recently discovered an attempt by the Wagner group and Russian intelligence to infiltrate gaming platforms such as Discord.
In his opinion, the Russians partly use game communities, in particular Discord, to publish information and distribute it. He said his company was advising governments on the matter.
Smith called for a national strategy to strengthen cyber defenses using artificial intelligence, citing threats from China and Iran.