A number of US Department of Defense (DOD), CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) documents have recently been posted on the Internet, which purportedly contain classified information about plans for Ukraine’s upcoming counteroffensive. Additionally, there was another leak pertaining to US spying on foreign leaders. These events give rise to questions about what the leakers may hope to achieve and what impact the leaks may have, Izvestia writes. Such leaks serve political and situational purposes. Given that the US is currently going through an acute phase of political turmoil, it could well be assumed that these documents were made public to reduce the United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian conflict, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation for United States Studies Yury Rogulev pointed out. These developments represent the first such large scale leaks to occur since the start of Russia’s special military operation. However, the leaked information does not spell out in any detail the Ukrainian armed forces’ plans for a counteroffensive. Moreover, a significant part of the information contained in papers marked top secret is accompanied by a note that the data came from open sources, which puts the information’s validity into question. As for data about US intelligence conducting surveillance on the leaders of allied countries, there is nothing sensational about such disclosures. US history is full of examples where such leaks were used to achieve domestic political aims, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies Vladimir Vasilyev notes. The same happened in the US during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. Back then, the New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, which discredited the Washington ‘war party.’ Today, the leaks highlight the activities of the anti war opposition inside the Pentagon and the intel community amid a highly volatile domestic political confrontation in the US. The Biden administration is clearly seeking to extend the Ukraine story to 2024, which is why it has been rejecting peace talks, the expert explained.

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A number of US Department of Defense (DOD), CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) documents have recently been posted on the Internet, which purportedly contain classified information about plans for Ukraine’s upcoming counteroffensive. Additionally, there was another leak pertaining to US spying on foreign leaders. These events give rise to questions about what the leakers may hope to achieve and what impact the leaks may have, Izvestia writes. Such leaks serve political and situational purposes. Given that the US is currently going through an acute phase of political turmoil, it could well be assumed that these documents were made public to reduce the United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian conflict, Director of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation for United States Studies Yury Rogulev pointed out. These developments represent the first such large scale leaks to occur since the start of Russia’s special military operation. However, the leaked information does not spell out in any detail the Ukrainian armed forces’ plans for a counteroffensive. Moreover, a significant part of the information contained in papers marked top secret is accompanied by a note that the data came from open sources, which puts the information’s validity into question. As for data about US intelligence conducting surveillance on the leaders of allied countries, there is nothing sensational about such disclosures. US history is full of examples where such leaks were used to achieve domestic political aims, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies Vladimir Vasilyev notes. The same happened in the US during the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. Back then, the New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, which discredited the Washington ‘war party.’ Today, the leaks highlight the activities of the anti war opposition inside the Pentagon and the intel community amid a highly volatile domestic political confrontation in the US. The Biden administration is clearly seeking to extend the Ukraine story to 2024, which is why it has been rejecting peace talks, the expert explained.