LONDON, April 12. /TASS/. The Serbian government does not rule out supplying lethal weapons for the Ukrainian army, Reuters reported on Wednesday citing the Pentagon’s classified documents leaked on the Internet.

The news agency refers to a chart summarizing "the ‘assessed positions’ of 38 European governments in response to Ukraine's requests for military assistance." According to Reuters, the document is marked as classified and not to be handed over to foreign secret services and has the seal of the office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from March 2, 2023. "The Pentagon chart divided the responses to Ukraine's requests for aid into four categories: countries that had committed to provide training and lethal aid; countries that had already provided training, lethal aid or both; countries with the military ability and the political will ‘to provide future lethal aid,’" the agency noted.

Reuters says, Austria and Malta were the only two countries marked "No" in all four categories. According to the chart, the Serbian authorities "declined to provide training to Ukrainian forces, but had committed to sending lethal aid or had supplied it already. It also said Serbia had the political will and military ability to provide weapons to Ukraine in the future." That said, the news agency stressed that it could not verify the document's authenticity.

Addressing the nation soon after the launch of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that though his country supported Ukraine’s territorial integrity, it would not impose sanctions on Russia. He also announced that his country would temporarily suspend all army and police drills with foreign partners. The Serbian leader added that his country would not provide arms to either party to the conflict. On March 2, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the Russian side had requested Belgrade’s official position regarding information concerning deliveries of Serbian ammunition to Ukraine.

US media reported earlier that the departments of Defense and Justice were investigating a leak of secret documents revealing American and NATO plans to build up Ukrainian forces before a counteroffensive. Numerous tranches of documents disclosing sensitive information about weapons delivery timeframes and troop strengths were posted on Twitter and Telegram. On April 7, the New York Times reported that another batch of classified US documents on Ukraine had been leaked on the Internet. The materials include sensitive briefing slides on the Middle East and China, the newspaper said.

Reuters emphasized that the leak is seen as one of the biggest breaches of secret data since more than 700,000 documents, videos and diplomatic cables were released through WikiLeaks in 2013. That said, it points out that the documents that appeared on the Internet may have been doctored.