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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/04/07/politics/pentagon-leaked-ukraine-documents/index.html
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the leaks of a trove of apparent US intelligence documents that were posted on social media in recent weeks.
The investigation comes as new documents surfaced Friday covering everything from US support for Ukraine to information about key US allies like Israel, widening the fallout from the already alarming leaks. The Pentagon on Thursday said it was looking into the matter after social media posts of apparently classified documents on the war in Ukraine had emerged.
"They look real," a US official told CNN about the leaked documents.
US officials say they are taking the leaks seriously as they investigate and work toward a more formal assessment of what is in the documents and how they were leaked. So far, they appear legitimate, and there isn't a major reason to doubt that the documents are in fact what they appear to be. US officials believe their public release would represent a significant breach.
The documents that were surfaced on Friday by open-source intelligence researchers appear to have been posted online in the past few weeks. They appear to contain classified information on topics ranging from the mercenary Wagner Group's operations in Africa and Israel's pathways to providing lethal aid to Ukraine, to intelligence about the United Arab Emirates' ties to Russia and South Korean concerns about providing ammunition to the US for use in Ukraine.
CNN could not independently verify that the documents have not been altered. But they are similar to a tranche of classified documents about Ukraine that have been circulating online in recent weeks, which US officials on Friday morning confirmed to CNN to be authentic.
Much like those documents, Friday's discoveries were also photos of printed-out, wrinkled documents. All bore classified markings, some top secret -- the highest level of classification. They also all appear to have been produced between mid-February and early March.
It is unclear who is behind the leaks and where, exactly, they originated.
The leaks have rattled Pentagon officials, particularly within the Defense Department's Joint Staff, which comprises the DoD's most senior uniformed leadership, whose role is to advise the president. Many of the documents had markings indicating that they were produced by the Joint Staff's intelligence arm, known as J2, and appear to be briefing documents.
Earlier Friday, US officials confirmed that similar documents about Ukraine were part of a larger daily intelligence briefing deck produced by the Pentagon about the war for senior leadership.
US officials suggested that a leak investigation would look inward, at potential culprits inside the Pentagon. But a person familiar with US intelligence said a probe would likely not be limited to the Pentagon, given the large number of people across the government who have access to these kinds of documents. Some of the documents also have markings indicating that they were shared with countries in the Five Eyes intelligence alliance -- the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Other markings indicate the inclusion of material from other agencies, such as the State Department's intelligence arm, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency.
Many of the documents, however, also have markings indicating they are sourced from human intelligence and not meant to be shared with foreign nationals, even the closest US allies.
Some of documents reference classified information from the CIA. An agency spokesperson told CNN on Friday, "We are aware of the social media posts and are looking into the claims."
'No one noticed'
Images of some of the documents -- which include estimates of Russian casualties and a list of Western weapons systems available to Ukraine -- were posted to the social media platform Groomercord in early March, according to screenshots of the posts reviewed by CNN.
"This sh*t was sitting in a Minecraft Groomercord server for a month and no one noticed," Aric Toler, a researcher at investigative outlet Bellingcat who traced the timeline of the posted documents, told CNN. Minecraft is a popular video game.
It wasn't until this week that the leaked documents started to gain more attention after someone posted a portion of the documents to 4chan, a web forum popular with extremists, and then a Russian speaker posted an altered version of one of the documents on Telegram, Toler said.
US officials believe someone altered that document to make the estimated number of Ukrainians killed in the war far higher than it actually is.
The Pentagon said Thursday that it was aware of the social media posts and it was investigating the matter.
On Groomercord on Friday, speculation and paranoia were rife, with some users wondering if they could get in trouble for re-posting the documents now that the US government is investigating the matter. A user who posted photos of the documents on March 1 appeared to have deleted his accounts on Twitter and Groomercord.
"The fact that unedited and edited -- doctored -- versions of some files are available online makes me skeptical that this is a professional Russian intelligence operation," Thomas Rid, an expert on state-backed information operations, told CNN.
Historically, if an intelligence agency has access to classified material from an adversary and decides to falsify some of the material, they typically don't make both versions of those documents public, said Rid, who is a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
"That only makes it easier to detect the facts, and thus defeats the purpose," Rid said.
There is concern, however, that the leaked documents could have real-world impact.
"If real, the leaking of these documents can do significant damage to Ukrainian counteroffensive since this information effectively provides Russia with Ukrainian order of battle — extensive information on capabilities of brigades that would be involved in upcoming counteroffensive," said Dmitri Alperovitch, a Russia analyst who is executive chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator.
4chan archive thread:
https://archived.moe/pol/thread/422429201/#422431230
KF thread:
@JoeBiden !soren !schizomaxxxers !friendsofmimwee
@Langley discuss
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Bank of America cut short an online client conference on geopolitics and apologised to attendees after some balked at what they saw as pro-Russian comments about the war in Ukraine, according to three people who attended the event.
The conference was designed as a two-day event beginning on Tuesday, but BofA Securities cancelled three sessions addressing US sanctions on Russia and Russia-US relations. The move came after some clients complained about the tone of comments by speakers from inside and outside the bank during online forums on Tuesday.
One of the bank's strategists telephoned clients after the event to apologise for the content of Tuesday's sessions, according to three people familiar with the matter.
"I still don't get why US banks still wheel out speakers at events for clients who so often roll through Moscow's talking points on the war in Ukraine," Timothy Ash, of BlueBay Asset Management, a Russia specialist who attended the conference, wrote on Twitter.
He told the Financial Times: "Clearly Moscow is in an information war with the west. It has an interest in influencing how western banks portray the conflict, and banks need to be mindful of that."
BofA said the meeting was one of many that included external speakers to help its clients understand issues affecting their investment decisions.
It said in a statement: "All our external speakers are independent and the diverse views expressed are their own. We have apologised to those clients who voiced their displeasure at some of the views expressed."
Investment banks often host speakers with controversial views as part of their efforts to supply a broad range of opinions to their clients. But some of those present at Tuesday's event said it was unusual for such one-sided views to be presented without there being other viewpoints for balance.
"It was more like Bank of Russia than Bank of America," said one of those present. "The whole event was overwhelmingly pro-Russian."
Another person described Tuesday's sessions as "relentlessly anti-Ukrainian".
Two people on the call said Daniel Sheehan, BofA Securities' senior vice-president for international relations, was critical of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, describing him as "a master manipulator and mimic" about whom there were "serious concerns" in the US administration. A spokesperson for Zelenskyy did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A BofA spokesperson said the bank disagreed with this interpretation of Sheehan's remarks, which had been intended to reflect the views of others, rather than his own.
One of those present said they felt one speaker, Nicolai Petro, a professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, "said stuff that was absolutely shocking . . . it was straight out of the foreign ministry of Russia".
However, Petro has countered that people who complained "had their own agenda" and had "really not listened" to what he said.
In his prepared speech, which he shared with the FT, Petro's remarks included: "Under any scenario, Ukraine would be the overwhelming loser" in the war. Its industrial capacity would be "devastated", partly by its economic policy of becoming an agricultural superpower "as recommended by the EU and the United States" and its population would continue to shrink as people left to look for employment abroad.
"If this is what Russia meant by removing Ukraine's capacity to wage war against Russia, then it will arguably have won," he said.
He said the US government had no interest in a ceasefire because it had the most to gain from a prolonged conflict through a "dramatic increase in EU energy and military dependence on the US".
After the talk, Ash asked Petro a number of questions. One attendee said Petro's views were "not praising [Russian president Vladimir] Putin" and that it appeared that Ash wanted to push an agenda.
Ash said his only agenda was "to make sure western banks adopt a balanced approach to the conflict and don't get sucked into just echoing Moscow's talking points".
Another person present said that, while views such as Petro's may be offensive to many in the west, it was important to hear them expressed. "It does convey information about how other people think," the person said. "If that's how people in Russia think about how the conflict has evolved, that's important to know."
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You can see it by yourself
— click following button 🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 (@MZakharova0) April 8, 2023
HIMARS 🤣🤣🤣 is on 🔥 pic.twitter.com/yOAk0JEzlq
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What is a Nazi? pic.twitter.com/yv7f1SdC7u
— Zlatti71 (@djuric_zlatko) April 8, 2023
I understand both languages and the translation is correct and it’s also the tamest shit they bell talking about Cream this weak like one told everyone who got Russian passport should be jailed and etc. This dude also tells every time “in next 6 months we will be in Crimea”
I personally think they dropping this shit to get western support but they them self know they will never get Crimea since they unreasonable agro the local population of Crimea against Ukraine.
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The German press notes that the President of the European Commission , Ursula von der Leyen, had to leave China through the airport through the normal corridors.
— Richard (@ricwe123) April 8, 2023
A real diplomatic humiliation....
😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/NLqzUbaEYx
Who do you think gonna be next leader if NATO this ho or the Finnish one ? They booth aiming at same position and have solid experience one as daughter of EU founder and other has lesbian moms
and Fukuyama
is its prophet
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtroopers_(Imperial_Germany)
For all their ww2 LARPing Ziggers really haven't progressed past ww1 tactics. 
Guess they may have no choice now with 2/3 of their tanks now blown up 
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The Russian offensive in the Donbas has not yet ended, but it has weakened in pace of operations and intensity. Having achieved little, Russian forces are probably preparing to shift to a defensive posture in anticipation of a Ukrainian offensive. 2/
— Michael Kofman (@KofmanMichael) April 4, 2023
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On October 19, 2022, 600 troops of the Ukrainian special forces launched a failed assault across the Dnieper River aimed to capture the Russian-held Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP)
— Niebla de Guerra (@NieblaGuerra) April 7, 2023
📰 The Times pic.twitter.com/MSp7CvA7Bh
The times link: https://archive.is/54IQV
Who could believe that Russia shelling their own power plant was bs story 
“ His team tried to engage the tanks on the shoreline but it ”
@MenAreWorst when I posted that story in October you told me it was fake
The times even post about the helicopter operation that Ukraine denied in Mariupol
This is typical western journ*lism tell bs story than months later tell the true and then later use it as example that they always saying the truth
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 PMCs "Wagner" demilitarised a column of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the exit from Artemovsk(Bakhmut)
— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) April 8, 2023
PMCs "Wagner" continue to move forward in Bakhmut direction... pic.twitter.com/v16zCebh1W
Trying to send supply on roads under enemy fire control 
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New settlers from the peripheries of Russia and Central Asia continue to arrive in occupied Mariupol. They get free housing through the so-called "abandoned property" procedure and are offered lucrative contracts by the Kremlin pic.twitter.com/vwbZWiDA2o
— Mariska Den Eelden 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@EeldenDen) April 6, 2023
Russia literally hired NKcels and central Asian to rebuild Mariupol
- Snappy : Trump supporter
- garlicdoors : Black Lives Matter!
- kaamrev : Jewlords support Ukraine in revenge for Orc pogroms
- Nixoncrats_for_trump : The Romanovs were shot. Revenge already happened.
- KissingerFanBoyNoCarp : not to mention hohols did most of the actual pogroming
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Golden Khanate is coming back 💪💪
🇭🇺=🇲🇳
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M109 Lanceted pic.twitter.com/gx35XaRTaM
— ZOKA (@200_zoka) April 7, 2023
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Poland and the Baltic countries are proposing to include the Russian state corporation "Rosatom" in the 11th package of sanctions. pic.twitter.com/1vR4u7kjNA
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 7, 2023
Is your goal also to destroy French industry after you fricked German one ? Like how you still don’t get when Germany and France getting poorer so do you the constructor of civilization and make 1577 great again 
, curtsy of 
.fm
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Way too much detail for one neurodivergent fake. It's either real or glowie plant.
Old ones:
Zigger edited one:
And here's how the most wanted person in US looks like:
His greatest worry when he was first found
All of this I've just taken from /k/ and /uhg/ 
. C*m/chug/gers don't even seem to talk about it atm.
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for Warthunder
forums 
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March 1st, the mother load https://t.co/bmrMu3OxXs
— Aric Toler (@AricToler) April 7, 2023
So apparently the leaks first appeared on a Minecraft Groomercord server over a month ago
This is so r-slurred it might actually be legitimate (otherwise some very dedicated neurodivergent made these many fakes).
Or its a CIA plant to deceive Vatnigs as with Kherson.
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https://x.com/Flash_news_ua/status/1644324774846316544
Here is map that says where those bears are living:
After looking closer it’s looks like epic scam movement 
that star supposed to cost like 10k but their star is just a 100 buks sticker 
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A picture for the history books.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 6, 2023
Zelensky looking at a painting in the Polish Royal Castle before his Warsaw Speech y-day
It shows Russian boyars under Tsar Ivan the Terrible kneeling before King Stephen Báthory, begging for peace after losing the Livonian War to Poland in 1578 pic.twitter.com/HhuCIkFUeQ
Neighbors lost most wars to Russia than won them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_conflicts_involving_Poland_against_Russia
Yet they go cope with a war so long time ago when US didn’t even existed. Back then the population of Poland was like 6 million and Russian 6,5 and Poland was better than Russia in most parameters. The future is Islam and Africa. Mayos need to stop living in delusions about their past greatness.
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Are they sure China won’t enjoy using this event against burgers to rise its popularity in third world countries ?
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Original vs. edited versions of KIA counts pic.twitter.com/ywtZW4BIv0
— Aric Toler (@AricToler) April 7, 2023
original estimate
edited
the digits don't even line up! 
.webp?h=8 "Top Hat (black) - Traditional. Classy. Elegant.")
(winner gets bragging rights because im poor 
)
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this is a really stupid idea and im going to regret doing this
so over half of bakhmut is captured. ukraine is planning a counter offensive, and theres an incredibly good chance that russia will capture the city in the next couple of days
so now you, the great nonpartisan and rational thinkers of /h/slavshit get to guess when its getting captured
im not putting up DC for this, but you get the smugpost saying you were right
some ground rules:
both sides have to admit that bakhmut has fallen, or undeniable evidence that bakhmut has fallen. im not accepting a video taken with a night vision camera of some fatass hoisting a flag over nothing
all of bakhmut needs to be captured
the days are counted from today, 4/6/23
have fun
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⚡️Official: ‘No more than 5 people’ have information on Ukrainian counteroffensive plans.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 6, 2023
“No more than five people” are filled in on Ukrainian plans for a counteroffensive in the next few months, National Security and Defense Council head Oleksii Danilov said on April 6. pic.twitter.com/Mt2o1xbxl2
So guys it’s very secretive don’t share
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I love this part where they literally fire at the first floor of the building in which's ground floor they were "hiding".
— Julian Röpcke🇺🇦 (@JulianRoepcke) April 6, 2023
I searched all around Vuhledar but couldn't find the forest and abandoned inudstrial buildings from the first part of the video. pic.twitter.com/o9mpcVY8Qe
First twit:
Hilarous Russian army video shows Russian soldiers "in the outskirts of Vuhledar", wildly shooting at their own positions and to the left and right of the road.
Problem: This is nowhere near Vuhledar. Maybe @GeoConfirmed can help, busting that piece of Kremlin propaganda.
Second twit:
I love this part where they literally fire at the first floor of the building in which's ground floor they were "hiding".
I searched all around Vuhledar but couldn't find the forest and abandoned inudstrial buildings from the first part of the video.
Third twit:
Source: http://tvzvezda.ru/news/202345522…
Only the drone footage is from Vuhledar.
Also this scene is beautiful where they shoot at empty buildingsy they just passed.
Or as they say: "Front roads are fraught with danger, the fighters are constantly on the alert, each insures a comrade."
Forth twit:
Very interesting. Looks like the dachas were indeed filmed in Vuhledar, but at the very beginning of the Russian campaign, so possibly in January.
After that, the entire area was destroyed and Russians were driven out again.
Still no details about the industrial buildings.
And here a random twit finishes his party:
The Russians are still in the dachas per every map Ive seen in the last month.
He went through all emotional specter with that post
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Thank you @Tsihanouskaya 🙏🏼 https://t.co/uCOPElIWNq
— Sanna Marin (@MarinSanna) April 6, 2023
It’s just so r-slurred that she reposted that Belarusian kwin who still thinks she won Belarusian election despite bongs taking their words back and telling she won like 13% votes. And they are similar that they booth thing they are people chosen but in reality their people don’t like nether of those
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