China agreed to ship weapons to Russia earlier this year and planned to disguise the equipment as civilian items, according to a US view of Russian intelligence leaked online. The document is among a collection of classified US military files obtained by The Post that was originally posted on the Discord chat app.
A 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who was arrested Thursday by the FBI is suspected of posting the classified material, which included grim assessments of the war in Ukraine among hundreds of other secrets. .
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Analysis from our correspondents
The US gloom over the war in Ukraine is now clear to see: Even as US officials publicly expressed their commitment to helping Ukraine resist Russian aggression, they expressed a far more cynical view in conversations with journalists and directly with Ukrainians, who ‘ wrote Ishaan Tharoor. A complete victory over Russia would be impossible for Ukraine, they said, and Western aid to the country could not continue indefinitely.
The seeming dismay of US officials about the course of the war emphasizes the question of what should come next. For some analysts, the current conditions should justify an increase in support for Kyiv. But that should also come with a clear diplomatic strategy, others wrote, that offers meaningful incentives for both sides to accept a ceasefire.
Meaghan Tobin in Taipei, Taiwan, and Karen DeYoung and Missy Ryan in Washington contributed to this report.
