MOSCOW, April 10. /TASS/. The leak of secret documents on Ukraine’s counter-offensive will not mar Ukraine’s relations with Western countries, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the chief of the Ukrainian presidential office, said on Monday.
Podolyak wrote on his Telegram channel on April 7 that the data made public on social networks were not true and did not represent Kiev’s actual plans. However, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky met with the army command later in the day to discuss measures to prevent leaks about the plans of the Ukrainian army.
"This is ordinary data. I don’t see how it can undermine relations with our partners. It doesn’t mess up any plans because they are still being worked out; they are only being looked at tactically," he said, adding that some of the data from these documents was already known, for instance, that Ukraine has a shortage of air defense systems.
The US mass media said earlier that the Pentagon and the US Department of Justice had launched a probe into the leak of secret documents about Washington and NATO’s plans to train Ukrainian soldiers ahead of an offensive against Russia. Numerous documents on the schedules of arms supplies and the strength of forces were leaked to social networks, including Twitter and Telegram. The New York Times reported on April 7 that another batch of secret American documents related to Ukraine had appeared on the internet. Apart from that, according to the newspaper, the leaks included documents on the Middle East and China.
According to Reuters, this is the biggest leak since 2013, when WikiLeaks disclosed more than 700,000 documents, videos and diplomatic telegrams. However, the agency doesn’t rule out the possibility that the leaked documents could be fake.