Pentagon leaks and the Ukraine war: What do the highly classified documents say and how did they get out?

US officials ‘simply don’t know’ how leak happened

The release of the documents has sent shockwaves through the US government and further afield.

It was unclear for a while where they came from with even the chief of the Pentagon saying he did not know.

Teixeira, 21, is said to have overseen a private group, containing around 25 active members, in which the leaked documents were shared. He’s now been arrested.

Known as “OG” in the Discord chatroom, the man allegedly claimed to spend parts of his day inside a secure facility where phones were banned.

It also appears to be unclear exactly how many records were leaked, but some estimates put the total in the hundreds.

What’s more, it seems that the US doesn’t know if all the documents have surfaced yet or if more is yet to come.

‘Very serious risk to national security’

The trove of slides appear to contain a lot of information about the conflict in Ukraine, including potential weaknesses in its defences and details of support being provided by Kyiv’s allies.

Officials in several countries have denied or rejected allegations from the leaked records.

There have also been discussions about how much of the information contained within the documents is accurate.

However, a top Pentagon spokesperson said the leak presents a “very serious risk to national security”.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Sky News: “Like everyone else, we don’t know the degree of authenticity of these documents.

“But even if we disengage from them, long before these documents appeared, we had and still have information that many instructors, including the ones from Britain, and fighters are taking part in the military actions.”