Confidential Documents Leaked Again: “Showing the Conflict Within the Russian Government Over the War in Ukraine”

According to the American newspaper, the documents describe how the Russian Federal Security Service “accuses” the Russian Defense Ministry of covering up Russian losses in Ukraine. The report describes the reluctance of military officials to pass on bad news to senior officials. according to New York times The FSB is critical of the number of deaths reported by the Russian ministry, because it will not count the deaths of the National Guard and Wagner’s own group, among others.

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The estimated number of Russian soldiers killed varies widely. The last time the Russian Defense Ministry announced a death toll was in September. Since the start of the war in February last year, 5,937 Russian servicemen have been killed. According to newly leaked documents, Russia’s Federal Security Service put the real number of Russians killed at close to 110,000. Previously leaked government documents put the number at between 189,500 and 223,000 Russian soldiers killed in a year.

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according to New York times And they obtained the leaked material through a server on which secret documents from the US security services had previously appeared. It looked partially modified before it went online. The US Department of Justice has launched an investigation into the leak. It is still not clear where the leak came from. According to the newspaper Washington Post The person who worked on a military base was going to take the documents.