Key Points
The documents, which were posted on sites such as Twitter, are labeled secret and resemble routine updates that the U.S. militarys Joint Staff would produce daily but not distribute publicly...
The Defense Department is reviewing a handful of documents that were released on several social media sites and appear to detail US and NATO aid to Ukraine, but may have been altered or used as part of a misinformation campaign...
And some inaccuracies including estimates of Russian troops deaths that are significantly lower than numbers publicly stated by U.S. officials have led some to question the documents authenticity...
Separately, however, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyys office released a statement Friday about a meeting he had with his senior military staff, and it noted that the participants of the meeting focused on measures to prevent the leakage of information regarding the plans of the defense forces of Ukraine..
If the published documents are authentic to any degree, however, the leak of classified data is troubling and raises questions about what other information about the Ukraine war or any coming offensive could be distributed..
