Some of the information in the highly classified leaked Pentagon documents was “not secret at all,” according to the head of Ukraine’s National Security Council.
“You can find it in publicly available sources,“ Oleksii Danilov told journalist, Vassili Golod of German broadcaster ARD, in an interview on Sunday.
Ukraine is in constant contact with its key allies, such as the US, the UK, Germany and Poland, according to Danilov.
“The data for conducting certain operations, the size of the units, who is involved and in what direction – this information is absolutely secret. If someone thinks he has it, I can only congratulate him. But I don’t know where he could have them from,” he said.
“For the other part of the information – if it was indeed secret – the agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom will know exactly where it came from. And why it surfaced at this particular time,” added Danilov.
The start of Ukraine’s planned counteroffensive will be decided by the staff of the Commander-in-Chief at the very last moment, stressed Danilov.
“If someone believes that we have only one option, it does not correspond to reality. Even three options would not be much,” Danilov said in the interview.
“Intelligence agencies need to be more vigilant when it comes to classified documents,” he added.
Some context: Ukraine has had to alter some of its military plans after the leak of highly classified Pentagon documents, a source close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskytold CNN.
However, Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, has said he believes the documents have “nothing to do with Ukraine’s real plans” and are based on “a large amount of fictitious information” disseminated by Russia.
